…Emily McCartney (7th overall), Dillon Guillen, and Catalina Diaz leading the team. Other contestants included Kyle Yerrick and Breanna Marcelino. The Agronomy contest involves the study field crops and weeds…
Free Bird-Friendly Farming Workshops
…Joaquin River Delta to support additional crops. The program is available in the following counties: Contra Costa, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Solano, Yolo, Butte, Sutter, Colusa, Glenn, Placer and Yuba. Interested…
California’s Diversity Reflected In Pesticide Outreach
…of Hmong farmers in the U.S., who grow specialty crops like daikon, long beans lemongrass and sugar cane. Michael Yang, the Small Farms and Specialty Crops Hmong Agricultural Assistant for…
USDA Designates 55 Counties in California as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
…the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…of the drought truly hit home last year when business at the facility dropped 35 percent because of reduced plantings. He said if water supplies do not recover, he expects…
UC Studies Outline Costs of Tomato Irrigation Systems
…and other agricultural associates. Assumptions used to identify current costs for individual crops, material inputs, cash and non-cash overhead are described. A ranging analysis table shows profits over a range…
NOW Still Tops Pistachio Pest List
Navel orangeworm continues to be at the top of the list of pests for a lot of crops and especially for pistachios. NOW Still Tops Pistachio Pest List One session…
Pollinator Seeds Have Added Benefit
Free seeds available from Project Apis M help pollinators and have some added benefits for growers. Pollinator Seeds Have Added Benefit Project Apis M offers free ground cover seeds for…
California Continues to Lead as Fresh Market State
Fresh market vegetable and melon production for the 24 selected crops estimated in 2014 totaled 413 million hundredweight for the U.S., down 1 percent from last year. For the 24…
CDFA Announces New Grant Funding Opportunity for Nitrogen Management Research
…developing fertilization guidelines for major crops grown in California. The guidelines are uploaded on a flow basis and are available to growers and crop advisors through this web-based platform: http://apps.cdfa.ca.gov/frep/docs/guidelines.html…
Western View: The Persistent Pecan
…good crops for 100 years or more. So people like the Cripe family near Stockton and Brian Blain in Visalia began experimenting. Working with UC advisor Steve Sibbett, Blain discovered…
Farm Bill and ARC/PLC Decision Aid Tool Workshops
…the workshops is to discuss producer options with respect to Agricultural Risk Coverage (ARC) and Price Loss Coverage (PLC) elections for covered commodities authorized by the 2014 Farm Bill. These…
Atwater FFA Students Advance to Regional Speaking Finals
…School agriculture program qualified for the regional finals in the Job Interview contest which involves students completing a cover letter, resume, job application, and panel interview. This event emphasizes developing,…
WUD, NRCS, and Audubon California Working Together
…be supplied with water and planted with crops preferred by tricolored blackbirds. A survey of Tricolored Blackbirds completed last year showed that the bird’s has declined 44 percent since 2011,…