…to March, while the monthly Margin Protection Program feed cost calculation rose by 64 cents per hundredweight. Those changes put the bimonthly MPP margin for March-April at $7.15 per hundredweight,triggering…
Shot Hole Borer Trapping in Avocado Groves
…More About The Pest From the UC IPM website: Symptoms of polyphagous shot hole borer (PSHB) attack and fungus infection differ among tree species. The beetle produces a very precise,…
Officials Say No Link between California Cage laws, Nevada Poultry Sales Increase
…200 percent since 2010, from a level of $5.32 million to $15.9 million in 2014. The jump comes as the state’s overall agriculture production value rose by 50 percent during…
The Western View: Take a Day Off
…off living. We are all dreaming of some magical rose garden over the horizon instead of enjoying the roses that are blooming outside our windows today.” Let’s go find today’s…
Adama Reports Strong Volume Growth, Increased Profits
…launch. Gross profit: Gross profit rose to $296m in the first quarter, which reflects an increase of 0.7 percentage points in the gross margin to 34.7%, despite the slight decline…
Agri View: Dining Out
…services rose to a new high of nearly $1,900 a person last year, surpassing the previous peak during the housing bubble in 2006 and far above the $1,650 a person…
People’s Garden
Urban Wood Planks, Planters and the VanRose Benches The concept of the People’s Garden is generally one that’s tended by volunteers and a lot of the food from it donated…
Bison Our National Mammal
…along with many co-sponsors from both parties. As the national mammal, bison will now join the oak (national tree – designated 2004), the rose (national floral emblem – designated 1998)…
Agri View: Egg Prices
…Minnesota especially hard at mid-year. Read the full article. From: USDA Economic Research Service Food Price Outlook Egg prices rose for the first time in 5 months, increasing 0.2 percent…
Treatments to Begin for the Japanese Beetle
…fruits may be completely consumed. Medium to high densities of larvae will cause patches of dead grass. Damage Caused by Japanese Beetle Japanese Beetle Project Links: Japanese Beetle Treatment Page…
Food Price Survey
…whole milk price rose almost 3 percent from the third quarter of last year, but that third quarter price was the lowest price in the survey since 2010, noted Anderson….
LBAM Quarantine Change
…berries (blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, and raspberry), corn, pepper, tomato, pumpkin, beans, cabbage, carrot, alfalfa, rose, camellia, pittosporum, jasmine, chrysanthemum, clover, lupine and plantain. Host List Life Cycle and Damage Development…
Today is National Ag Day
…the roof to dry in the sunshine. An Apple a Day Apples are a member of the rose family. Washington state grows the most apples in the U.S. The apples…
Agri View: Foreign Trade
…to global supplies and prices. As population and incomes rose worldwide in the 1990s, U.S. consumer-oriented agricultural exports inlucding high-value products (HVP) expanded in response to demand for greater diversification…