USDA Announces Building Blocks for Climate-Smart Agriculture

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…strategy is made of these 10 building blocks: Soil Health: Improve soil resilience and increase productivity by promoting conservation tillage and no-till systems, planting cover crops, planting perennial forages, managing…

Water for Farms – a Briefing by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)

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…scarce farm water supplies. But they have also brought new challenges. Acreage is shifting toward higher-revenue—but less flexible—crops. California farmers have shifted markedly to fruits, nuts, vegetables, and nursery crops,…

Petal Fall Districts for Fresno County

Taylor HillmanGeneral

…wishes to express his appreciation to citrus growers, pest control operators, pest control advisers and beekeepers for observing the statutes protecting both honeybees and agricultural crops during the citrus bloom….