…Western Fresno County. The features of the Twilight Field day are sustainable agricultural systems involving precision irrigation and conservation tillage. This year, the event has been expanded to include an…
Family Farm Wins Against Development
…Download Audio Report The California Department of Conservation (DOC) and the Northern California Regional Land Trust (NCRLT) have created an agricultural conservation easement on the Pamma‐Larkin farm one mile outside…
CA Farm Bureau On Water Shortage
…at the end of February, leaving farmers potentially vulnerable if they need water for frost control in early spring. “Everybody is practicing strict water conservation with microsprinklers and drip irrigation,…
Merced and Kings Counties Tours Next Week
The conservation tillage dairy bus tours in Merced and Kings Counties are next week. For more information, click here. Click to Open or Download Audio Report…
Farm Bill Effect on Latest CRP Sign Up
The extension of the current Farm Bill led to a shorter Conservation Reserve Program general sign up period. Rod Bain reports. Click to open or download audio report…
DWR Announces Groundwater Assistance Grants
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has awarded more than $4.7 million in grants to 26 public agencies from the Local Groundwater Assistance Program. Grant funding is provided by Proposition…
Costa: House Fails Rural America and Consumers
…Specialty Crop Research Initiative (SCRI) to encourage the development of new technologies and improved efficiencies in the production of specialty crops. $375 million for the Specialty Crop Block Grants Program…
No-Till Cotton Production
…management, using crop covers, and water conservation at a field day in Western Fresno. Cropping systems specialist with the University of California, Dr. Jeffrey Mitchell organized the event and shared…
Field Days Coming Up
…on Thursday near Dos Palos, in Fresno County. It’s organized by the Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center, and is a a two-stop field tour of innovative and cost-cutting no-till cotton…
Specialty Crops Continue Strong Momentum in House Ag. Committee Farm Bill
…that were included in the Senate-passed legislation. Included in the House version are provisions funding key specialty crop priorities such as: • Specialty Crop Block Grants funded at $72.5 million…
Costa Supports Advancing the Farm Bill, Calls for House Action
…the production of specialty crops. $375 million for the Specialty Crop Block Grants Program over the life of the 2013 Farm Bill to strengthen the market for the specialty crops…
AFBF Statement on House Farm Bill
…proved thoughtful in their efforts to reform our nation’s farm law, from significant changes in how commodity programs are structured to streamlining in other aspects, such as conservation programs. The…
Opening Statement of Chair. Frank D. Lucas Committee on Agriculture To Consider the 2013 Farm Bill
…their risk better with it. The Conservation Title, which is extremely important to me since my days as chairman of that subcommittee, is reformed to reduce overlapping programs and streamline…
Farm Bill Markups
…cut from nutrition assistance, and $6.9 billion cut from conservation. Some programs did make it through, not only without cuts, but with increases. That includes disaster aid and crop insurance….