…State University, Raleigh, N.C., $484,990 Stockholm Environment Institute U.S., Davis, Calif., $484,764 University of Southern California, Los Angeles, Calif., $485,000 University of California, Riverside, Calif., $126,181 Texas A&M University, Corpus…
Three California Organizations for Climate Action Leadership
…San Bernardino Associated Governments, and County of Los Angeles) for the HERO Program was awarded the Innovative Partnerships Certificate for helping to increase the mass adoption of home energy and…
Today is National Ag Day
…list of favorite toppings. In 1830 pizza truly began with the opening of the world’s first pizzeria. Port’ Alba, the pizzas were cooked in an oven lined with lava from…
Additional HLB-Positive Trees Confirmed in San Gabriel
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) has confirmed four additional HLB-positive trees in the San Gabriel region of Los Angeles County. The trees were located on three different…
ACP Monitoring ‘Springs’ Into Action
…trees have been located in urban Los Angeles County. They were quickly removed by CDFA officials. “In California, we are working hard to keep the population of ACP as low…
Five Lessons for California from Australia’s Drought
…living with drought. A recent story in the Los Angeles Times said that Felicia Marcus, chair of the state water board, “can look back on the last year and see…
Calif. Citrus Growers Turn to Florida and Texas for Huanglongbing Help
…Los Angeles Basin. If the disease is allowed to take hold, it will be a death sentence for California citrus. Stopping the insect vector, the Asian citrus psyllid, is the…
Asian Wasps Could Help Stink Bug Control
…now in urban communities in Siskiyou, Butte, Sutter, Yolo, Sacramento, San Joaquin, Stanislaus, Santa Clara and Los Angeles counties. In urban areas, the pest is a nuisance. Bugs aggregate in…
Leap Year and Ag
…truly began with the opening of the world’s first pizzeria. Port’ Alba, the pizzas were cooked in an oven lined with lava from Mount Vesuvius, a volcano located on the…
National Almond Day
…plantings near Sacramento, Monterey and Los Angeles showed promise and a new industry was born for California growers. Today, the state of California is the biggest producer of the world’s…
Valentine Flowers
…million flower stems and intercepted 372 pests. Los Angeles ranked second in the nation among U.S. ports of entry for the number of cut flower shipments during this season. Miami…
Malaysian Fruit Fly Quarantine in Portion of Los Angeles County
…USDA, the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, and CDFA are working collaboratively with residents on this project. The quarantine area in Los Angeles County measures 74 square miles, bordered on…
Citrus Greening Grants Awarded
…support research and extension activities that address key challenges of national, regional, and multi-state importance in sustaining all components of food and agriculture, including conventional and organic food production systems….
Oakdale Area Added to ACP Quarantine in Stanislaus County
…quarantines are now in place in Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura Counties, with portions of Alameda, Fresno, Kern, Madera, Merced, San…