…that already totaled nearly $115 million in 2015. U.S. agricultural exports affected by Indonesia’s restrictions include apples, grapes, oranges, potatoes, onions, flowers, juices, cattle, beef and poultry. Indonesia can appeal…
CA Produce Shows Low or No Pesticide Residue
…their product and fines. In September 2016, DPR imposed a $10,000 fine against a California grower after an illegal pesticide was detected on his grapes in the marketplace and on…
Detector Dogs Funded to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases
…to programs in California and Florida to enhance inspections and efficiently move products; Grapes: $860,690 to enhance surveys for grape commodity pests and diseases in 17 states and harmonize Grapevine…
Easy-to-Harvest Raisin Grape Reduces Production Cost
…many grapes, crews must go out about two weeks before the harvest and cut the canes, which are the long branches on the vines that actually produce the grapes. Once…
Schools partner to Share Love of Ag Education
…lies within California’s top agricultural county, Tulare County, where the most valuable communities produced are milk, cattle and calves, oranges and grapes. However, prior to attending the conference, Beck thought…
Vertical Gardening
…or fencing. It’s called vertical gardening and it’s, pardon the pun, cropping up more and more in urban and suburban settings. People are growing such things as grapes, Kiwis, cucumbers…
Walnuts, Raisins and Prunes Report
…producer of raisins or prunes if they grew or purchased fresh grapes or prunes and dehydrated them. Handler: Firm that processes and markets walnuts, raisins, or prunes. Finalized Purchases: Tonnage…
Critical European Grapevine Moth Safeguarding Milestone Recognized
…a crop which has an economic impact to the State of more than $57 billion annually. The pest also jeopardized valuable export markets for U.S. grapes, as well as for…
Kern County 2015 Crop Report
…crop value ($7,552,323,690). The top five commodities for 2015 are Grapes, Almonds, Citrus, Milk and Cattle & Calves, which make up more than $4.6 Billion (67%) of the Total Value;…
Global Wine Output Slipping to 20 Year Low
Global wine volumes are expected to decline this year as adverse weather damaged grapes during the growing season. World wine output could fall by 5.3 percent because of excess rain…
Western View: The Most Dangerous Highway?
…tomato trucks competing with the cotton trucks and the grapes heading to the juicer, then you add the farm labor vans heading off to the fields or home from a…
Early-Autumn Weather Affects Coastal Crops
…content of the grapes, but cooler weather such as that expected later in the week would bring it back down. As long as he could keep his grapes irrigated, Merrill…
New Toolkit for Teachers
…chicken, chickpeas, cucumbers, dates, eggs, figs, garlic, grapefruits, grapes, green beans, honeydew, kiwi fruit, leaf lettuce, lemons, lima beans, milk, mushrooms, nectarines, oats, olives, onions, oranges, peaches, pears, pecans, peppers,…
New Rules Governing Use of Fumigant Pesticide 1,3-D
…crops including sweet potatoes, almonds, strawberries, grapes and carrots. It has been used in the United States since 1954 and in California since 1970, mostly in the San Joaquin Valley…