…for Your Full-Grown Tomato Plants What started as a project months ago with just a container, some seeds, and potting soil is now becoming a full blown harvest. Your plants…
Sterile NOW Project Gets Major Funding in Appropriations Bill
A navel orangeworm moth perched on a pistachio. UCANR Photo: Kathy Keatley Garvey The project looking at sterile technology to help combat navel orangeworm gets a big boost. Navel orangeworm…
Hmong-Language Pesticide Safety Videos Available from DPR
…labels. DPR Director Val Dolcini noted that the video project is the first of its kind to feature Hmong speakers, and should help foster better understanding of pesticide safety among…
The Almond Conference Hits Record Highs
…Global Marketing team. Stenderup, who grew up in the California almond industry and is the son of ABC Vice Chair of the Board Kent Stenderup, is one of only seven Americans…
Farm City Newsday Wednesday, 12-18-19
…involved in the Friant-Kern canal repair project, UCCE is finally in a position to bolster farm advisors around the state and much more. Tune in to the show for these…
Feds Get Involved in Fixing Friant-Kern Canal
…has lost approximately 60 percent of its overall carrying capacity. The Friant-Kern Canal Subsidence and Capacity Correction Project would restore capacity in the canal to the original 4,000 cubic-feet-per-second flow…
USDA Funds Conservation Innovation Across the Country
…NRCS selected 19 projects for CIG awards. Projects include: The University of Minnesota will evaluate cover crop rotations for vegetable systems and quantify the impact on pollinators and potential benefits to pollinator…
Proactive IPM Projects Tackle Weevils, Leafminers, Midges
…to three projects through its Proactive Integrated Pest Management (IPM) Solutions grant program. The program helps facilitate work that looks at issues of concern to California ag industries but not yet found in…
How to Build an Herb Spiral in Your Garden
…while your plants are getting established. It also gives the whole project a more polished look until your herbs grow in and cover the bare soil. Give your plants time…
Farm Groups Partner to Help Farmers Manage Stress
…build on that project by further increasing farmers’ access to the information and services they need to get through financial and personal emergencies. Resources may also be accessed on MSU…
Brewery Goes ‘Full Circle’ with MJDOA Partnership
…Full Circle Brewery owners felt it was important to partner on this project. About the Author Taylor Hillman Sponsored Content Fungicide Resistance Management Minute April 3, 2024 Fungicide Resistance Management…
New ARS Strawberry is a ‘Keepsake’
…texture and are juicy when eaten. ‘Keepsake’ is very closely related to ‘Flavorfest’, a strawberry plant also developed by this project in 2012, which is available for purchase and popular…
How to Build Raised Garden Beds
…cutting. If you’re going to apply a preservative to the wood for raised garden beds, it’s best to do so at the beginning of the project. For raised garden beds…
USDA Announces Awards to Put Conservation Innovation to Work on U.S. Farms
…are required to evaluate the conservation and economic outcomes from these practices and systems, giving NRCS critical information to inform conservation work in the future. Sixteen projects are receiving On-Farm…