…FFA 2nd place Land team included Juan Hurtado (3rd overall), Joseph Kamesch, Gabby England, and Amber Miller. The contest involves the evaluation and interpretation of soils and soil profiles. Students…
Western View: Estate Tax Planning
…use – that farmland would be appraised as farmland, not as land ready to be developed. So this amount excludes a lot of farms in other parts of the country….
USDA Provides $57.9 Million to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases through the 2014 Farm Bill Section 10007
…Beetle in California; $100,000 for a Regional Identification Center for Bark Beetle and other woodboring beetles in Oregon; A total of $165,975 to study attractants for the Giant African Land…
USDA NASS Continues to Survey Farmers and Landlords for TOTAL Survey
…Agricultural Land (TOTAL) survey. NASS is collecting data from both farm operators and landlords who are not farm operators to create a complete picture of farm costs, land ownership, demographics…
Grocery Price Forecast for 2015
Last year, we saw our food prices rise – in This Land of Ours – by about 2-percent overall. Will we pay more at the Grocery Store this year? Cathy…
Sending farmers to Mars
…a lot of practice squeezing a living out of costly land with too little water. <Song: Rocket Man> I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the far Western View from AgNet West….
Zero Allocations…Again
…not a priority! Since 1992 over seven million acre feet of water has been transferred away from landowners in the Southern San Joaquin Valley with no accountability as to the…
What ‘Potential to Discharge’ Means to You
…forms to growers in parts of the state to survey what land owners are practicing in the field. San Joaquin County Resource Conservation Coalition Program Manager Mike Wackman says one…
Agri View: Up and Away
Everett Griner talks about farm land still a good investment in today’s Agri View. Up and Away…
Western View: Sustainable Agriculture
…but also builds up the land. And in doing so, the land is preserved so that the farmer’s great-grandchildren can do the same thing on the same land. UC Davis…
Atwater FFA Charters a Strong Showing at Arbuckle Field Day
…overall) placed in the top ten individually. Other participants included Avery Smith and Cesar Perez. The Atwater FFA Land team earned a 2nd place team finish composed of team members…
USFRA Looks to Storytelling to Educate Consumers
The United States Farmers and Ranchers Alliance says storytelling is often the best way for farmers in This Land of Ours to engage in conversations with consumers about how they…
California’s Three Largest Dairy Cooperatives Submit Proposal for California to Join the Federal Milk Marketing Order
…years of operation, Land O’Lakes today operates some of the most respected brands in agribusiness and food production including LAND O LAKES® Dairy Foods, Purina Animal Nutrition and WinField. The…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…water from Shasta Dam through the federal Central Valley Project, he said she received no water and ended up planting only one-fifth of the land, using groundwater and “what some…