…In fact, domestic turkeys had their beginning in the wild. Even today there are more wild turkeys than there have ever been in North and Central America. Wildlife officials estimate…
EPA to Reduce Diesel Emission
…CARB was awarded a $539,412 grant to be combined with $371,168 in state funding to retrofit 41 heavy-duty diesel school buses operating throughout California. San Joaquin Valley Unified Air Pollution…
USDA WASDE Report at a Glance
…of the Red River Valley and Michigan are countered by strong content and record crop yields in western growing areas. Cotton: This month’s 2016/17 U.S. cotton forecasts include increased production,…
Weather Radar Helps Researchers Track Bird Flu
…corn fields. The Central Valley alone is home to 3 million waterfowl at the height of migration. “Using NEXRAD and various other approaches, we hope to be able to produce…
Easy-to-Harvest Raisin Grape Reduces Production Cost
…total harvest costs, according to Craig Ledbetter, an ARS plant geneticist at the San Joaquin Valley Agricultural Sciences Center. The new “Sunpreme” raisin grape dries without cane cutting and could…
Freeze Threat To California’s Central Valley
Ag producers in the Golden State’s major production area are preparing for a potential freeze event – part of a nationwide cold snap. Rod Bain has the story. californias-central-valley…
Record Yields Leading to Storage Crunch
…on the rise, and storage shortages have been widely reported across the Western Corn Belt, and Central and Southern Plains regions. The report notes that storage tightness could persist through…
Cost Studies for Growing Plums and Raisins in SJV
…Market Plums in the San Joaquin Valley – South – 2016 Sample Costs to Establish a Vineyard and Produce DOV Raisins (OGTS) in the San Joaquin Valley – 2016 Sample…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…water supplies from the Colorado River and have adequate supplies. Farther north, however, it’s a different story. “The Central Valley used to be a lot bigger deal than what it…
Stink Bug Could Infest by the Tens of Thousands
…Central Valley, a lot of crops could be simply overtaken. “If that happens, it could come into the pistachio orchards not just by the thousands, but by the tens of…
The Western View: Escaping to Morro Bay
We’ve been talking about favorite places to go that are within a day’s drive of the central valley. Morro Bay has to be on that list. And we’re heading there,…
More Cattle Culling Planned in Canada Amid Bovine TB
…organism found so far in the probe is different from strains previously discovered in Canada. It is, however, “closely related” to a strain originating from cattle in central Mexico in…
State Water Project Starts at 20 Percent
…acre-foot capacity and 70 percent of its historical average for the date. Shasta Lake north of Redding, California’s and the federal Central Valley Project’s (CVP) largest reservoir, was holding 2,896,484…
Central Valley Supports Food Supply Chains
California’s Central Valley joins national network U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) announced three new public-private partnerships that will create economic opportunities in Elgin, Texas; Fresno, Calif.; and Chicago. The Food…