…Income Statement items for Q1 2016 that appear in the above table include adjustments for redeployment of employees’ options granted in 2014. The Income Statement items for Q1 2015 that…
National Pick Strawberries Day
…one of the most common fruits in the home garden for both their ease of growth and popularity at the table…if they get that far. There are recipes and uses…
Agri View: Women Farm Operators
…in the case of principal operators. (Table 1) Table 1 Fourty-four percent of all farms reported having two operators, and 7 percent reported three operators involved in day-to-day decision making….
USDA Increases Sugar Quantity, Access
…than expected raw sugar supply (see table). Since this action did not eliminate the overall cane sector surplus allotment, 500,000 STRV is reassigned from domestic cane sugar allocations to raw…
Veterans for Hire
…employment landscape, HOH placed a huge emphasis on educating employers on what exactly it is that veterans and military spouses bring to the table for a company’s bottom line. Read…
GWSS Egg Hatch Begins, Treatments Underway
…in grapes. Last week (May 4th, 2016) I made a visit to a table grape vineyard in the General Beale area where three of us found more than 40 egg…
Agri View: Ornamental Fish
…(Table 1). The number of species is almost equally divided between freshwater and saltwater species. However, the greatest volume or number of individuals in the trade, some 90-96%, are of…
Agri View: Olives in Florida?
Everett Griner talks about olives as an alternative to citrus in Florida in today’s Agri View. Olives in Florida? From: Florida Olive Council The Florida Olive Blooming Olive Tree –…
New Cost Studies for Growing Almonds
…costs for the almond crop, material inputs, cash and non-cash overhead. A ranging analysis table shows profits over a range of prices and yields. Other tables show the monthly cash…
Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge
…market, food stands, food hubs Farms, ranches, greenhouses, managed forests, aquaponics, cut flowers, herbs, honey, landscape plants Farm-to-table businesses Support services, including scouting, equipment repair, fertilizer sales Value-added processing, including…
Farm Camp
…cows), vegetable (picking beans), and culinary (assisting with the camp’s organic, vegetarian meals). (Ages 8–16; hawthornevalleyfarm.org) Muir Beach, California At Slide Ranch, a 134-acre coastal farm and nature preserve in…
CA Ag Contributes to Food Banks
…on the table. “Our Farm to Family team prides itself on our logistics and transportation expertise, which farmers tell us is an asset to working with our program,” said Sue…
Water, Markets Complicate Farms’ Planting Plans
Food production in California—always risky business—has become increasingly complex and unpredictable. Farmers say recent meager irrigation water-supply announcements for some of the state’s growing regions have further complicated planting and…
Agri View: Egg Prices
…by seasonal demand. However, the upswing in 2015 was primarily due to the HPAI outbreak, which decreased the table-egg-laying flocks in the Midwest and Pacific Northwest by 11 percent (33…