…studying up. I ask Mike Adams if there’s a word in any of India’s languages for pecan. “If there is,” he says, “this Texan doesn’t know it.” Pecan harvesting Video…
Almond Board: New Incentive to Reduce Dust
…NRCS Air Quality Incentive California air quality should get a boost from farmers using lower emission harvesting equipment, according to USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in California. Beginning in 2016,…
New Air Quality Incentives for Nut Farmers to Adopt Low-Emission Harvesters
California air quality should get a boost from farmers using lower emission harvesting equipment, according to USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service in California. Beginning in 2016, the agency is offering…
Wet Weather Doesn’t Hinder Citrus Harvest
…mandarin production in California is up 24 percent from last season with continued increase in planted acres. “We’re about to start harvesting tangelos and sweet mandarins,” Meyers said. “And we’re…
USDA Awards $3 Million for Robotics Research
…– The goal of this project is to develop theoretical and technological tools that will enable the design, optimization, prototyping and field-testing of consistently high-throughput, cost-effective mechanized harvesting systems for…
Agri View: Eat Your Vegetables
…acreages of single-product crops. Depending on the type of vegetable concerned, harvesting the crop is followed by grading, storing, processing and marketing. Vegetables can be eaten either raw or cooked…
Growing Organic, Conventional and GMO on the Same Farm
…grows both conventional and organic tomatoes, and also GMO corn – which the farm had just finished harvesting before we visited. He’s also grown GMO alfalfa in prior seasons. “We…
USDA Shares 2015 Results
…on 49,000 acres for costs associated with harvesting and transporting agriculture or forest residues to facilities that convert biomass crops into energy. Research projects funded through NIFA’s Biomass Research and…
Agri View: U.S. Farm Raised
…grow into fingerlings. At 4 to 6 inches in length, they are transferred to catfish ponds in a ratio of approximately 4,500 per surface acre of water. Harvesting U.S. Farm-Raised…
UC Davis Cracks the Walnut Genome
…late in the season, and growers would like earlier harvests. Marker-assisted breeding provides an opportunity to develop early harvesting cultivars with the desirable attributes of Chandler. “The large repository of…
Farming Simulator
…and new scenery, which creates an even more realistic and immersive atmosphere! Develop your farm across hundreds of acres in 3 vast environments. From harvesting to animal husbandry, and from…
National Co-op Month: A Reminder of the Cooperative Nature of Food and Agriculture
Cooperatives are at the very heart of agriculture. Cooperative systems emerge at all levels of production and extend through many facets, from harvesting to marketing. Co-ops can be complex operations…
USDA Funds New Pilot Project
…utilizing coproducts from producing and harvesting almonds is key to the industry’s current environmental impact and further reducing carbon emissions. However, the LCA study did not include possible greenhouse gas…
Commentary: How to Comply with State Sales and Use Tax Rules
John Gamper State law provides partial relief from sales and use taxes for farm equipment, machinery, diesel fuel used in farming and food processing, off-road timber harvesting equipment and machinery,…