…we need data,” he says. Listen to this week’s episode to learn about funding strategies for these technologies and the future of high-tech beekeeping. Sponsored Content Fungicide Resistance Management Minute…
Inspiring Students to Appreciate Agricultural Production
…agricultural education. Dr. Rodriguez was a former high school agriculture teacher and taught agriculture education classes at Reedley College before becoming a teacher at Fresno State. He enjoys the impact…
Candy is Big Business in U.S., Sugar Industry Concerned about Policy
…bad taste for some, such as the president of the American Sugarbeet Growers Association Nate Hultgren. He says “It’s insulting that multi-billion-dollar corporations are posting high profits while crying poor…
Heatwave Causes Concern for Later Season Pumpkins
…flake off if they become too stressed. While temperatures have come down a bit this week, the long stretch of consistently hot weather has negatively impacted production. “I know it’s…
Equipment Sanitation: Keeping Tomato Fields Safe from Pests and Diseases
…about what sanitizers are effective? What conditions are needed for those sanitizers to be effective? What are high-risk areas that are critical control points that are not being effectively cleaned?”…
Applications Open for Rural High-Speed Internet Program
Helping households get high speed internet. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. USDA is accepting applications for the ReConnect Program loans and grants to expand access to high-speed…
Week in Review: Good Year for Avocados & Farm Profits to Reach Near-Record High
The 2022 California avocado season is wrapping up, with nearly 263 million pounds shipped through the middle of August. USDA’s Economic Research Service forecasts inflation-adjusted U.S. net cash farm income…
Using A Passion for Agriculture to Educate the Next Generation
…my college students, and I did that with my high school students. Sometimes you’re a nurse, sometimes you’re a counselor, sometimes you’re a mom, even before I had kids.” Apart…
USDA Says Farm Profits to Reach Near-Record High in 2022
…cash expenses and will reach $168.5 billion in 2022, the highest level since 2012. In comparison, net farm income is forecast to drop by almost $1 billion from 2021 to…
Fall Propane Supply Outlook
Fuel prices are lowering, but still high in many places. What does that mean for the fall propane supply and price outlook? That’s coming up on This Land of Ours….
Good Year So Far for California Cotton, ‘Knock on Wood’
…been extraordinarily high. “If commodity prices were what they were a year ago, we’d be done for. I mean, these input prices are two or three times higher than what…
Higher Beef Prices Could Follow Shrinking U.S. Cattle Herd
…looking at higher beef prices continuing in their local meat cases. Due to high feed prices and severe drought, ranchers were forced to reduce their cattle herds. Grain prices have…
New Push for Rural Broadband
…Joni Ernst of Iowa reintroduced bipartisan legislation to protect and expand access to high-speed internet in rural communities and encourage rural broadband investment. The Access to Capital Creates Economic Strength…
Inflation Reduction Act Includes $4 Billion for Drought Relief
…funding for drought-related priorities in the Colorado River Basin, which supports 5.7 million acres of irrigated agriculture including most of the nation’s winter vegetables as well as other high-value foods…