…crop breeding, the world was able to significantly increase the amount of yield per acre for key crops like maize, wheat, and rice. Dubbed the Green Revolution, technological advances helped…
Agri View: Check First
…Fast-Food Chains for Drive-Through Service by Carol Rice, Forbes Contributor Bad customer service when we’re eating out is always a drag. But nothing beats driving away with your bag from…
Alyssum Attracts Good and Bad Insects
…that attacks various vegetable crops, weedy mustards and several ornamental plants within the mustard family (Brassicaceae) such as sweet alyssum, stock, and candytuft. It is particularly devastating to young seedlings…
Agri View: Drones-Technology Driven
…over Japan’s rice fields, is being studied for potential agricultural uses in the United States. In Japan, the RMAX and its predecessor have been used on rice farms for over…
Agri View: Black Rice
…is a very versatile product. There is other rice than just white rice. There is red rice, brown rice, black rice and even pink rice. Black Rice From Wikipedia, the…
Agri View: GMO Where?
…rice, resistance to herbicides). The term “genetically modified organism” does not always imply, but can include, targeted insertions of genes from one species into another. For example, a gene from…
2015 California Leopold Conservation Award Winner Recognized
…biodiversity was taking an unusual approach to managing wild rice fields. After harvest, they began tilling the stubble into the soil and keeping their fields covered in water year-round. The…
Pacific Region Field Crop Review
…bales, was carried forward from last month. American Pima harvested area, at 154.3 thousand acres, was carried forward from last month. RICE: California’s 2015 rice crop forecast at 35.3 million…
Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japan
…a specified threshold, with the intention of bringing the price of Japan’s pork imports up to the higher domestic price. Because Japan is highly protective of its pork industry, in…
Prather Ranch Named 2015 California Leopold Conservation Award Recipient
…stewardship in the community. One of the ranch’s first efforts to promote biodiversity was taking an unusual approach to managing the wild rice fields on its land near Mt. Shasta….
Farm-to-Food Bank Month a Time for Sharing and Caring
…tremendous support from producers of rice, citrus, fresh fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, and eggs, to name just a few commodities. In fact, more than 120 family farms have worked…
U.S. Rice Growers Have Less to Sell, but Prices May Be Higher
…sheet forecast for U.S. rice this season has a minus sign in front of it, except the price. U.S. Rice Growers Have Less to Sell, but Prices May Be Higher…
Woodland California Ag Museum Transition
In unassuming warehouse space nestled along I-5 in Woodland, a stone’s throw from the region’s famed rice fields and nut trees, something’s up. Change is afoot. If you’re an aggie,…
USDA Issues Safety-Net Payments to Farmers Facing Market Downturn
…example, the corn price for 2014 is 30 percent below the historical benchmark price used by the ARC-County program, and revenues of the farms participating in the ARC-County program are…