…Advisory board members farm in seven states and raise crops ranging from corn and soybeans to cotton, sorghum, wheat and potatoes. This kind of diversity will help ensure that ADC…
Climate Smart Israel – Delegation Update
…with a focus on arid-zone agriculture in a changing climate. We heard about their special wheat breeding program to develop varieties to cope with climate change; efforts to combat the…
Attorney Comments on Ruling in Duarte/WOTUS Lawsuit
…all started in 2012, when Duarte hired a contractor to till his land near Redding (Northern California) to prepare to plant winter wheat. The contractor unintentionally encroached on parts of…
Wheat Genome Sequence Released
Bread wheat whole genome sequencing passes quality control, available to download Following the January 2016 announcement of the production of a whole genome assembly for bread wheat, the International Wheat…
Dolcini Tours Farms
FSA Administrator Travels West: Tours Farms from Washington to Southern California By Lauren Moore, Assistant Public Affairs Specialist Skip Mead (left) and Administrator Dolcini (right) check the wheat quality of…
Crop Production Report
…included the commodities: Wheat – The 2016 Winter wheat production forecast is 438 thousand tons, up 39.0 percent from last year. Harvested acres are estimated at 200 thousand, resulting in…
Agri View: Meals Without Meat
…flavor and cuts back on unhealthy saturated fats that typically creep up in the barbecue favorite. Enjoy it on a whole-wheat bun and tack on an additional 6 grams of…
Agri View: Japan’s Agriculture Imports-Exports
…flour, Wheat and wheat flour, and Butter and milk powder. Imports outside the TRQs face high tariffs. Within some of the quotas, government-owned corporations have the sole right to import,…
Agri View: Better Times?
…agency’s latest 10-year projections show flat prices for corn and only modest gains in wheat and soybeans, overall net income should rebound about 4% annually through 2025. Most of the…
Agri View: Jackfruit
…its size, and resistance to pests and drought. And its nutritional credentials are also impressive: researchers have suggested it could replace wheat, corn and other staple crops that may come…
Global Grain Glut to Continue with Second-Biggest Crop on Record
…be nine million metric tons more than forecasted in April as wheat crops improve in the European Union, the United States and Russia. Bloomberg reports the International Grains Council expects…
Drought Causing More Losses to California Farmers
…the same time, the report expects a significant reduction in acreage for field crops that require significant amounts of water, including corn, wheat, cotton and alfalfa. However, despite a projected…
More Overhead Irrigation in California’s Future
…beginning to change. UC Cooperative Extension and Fresno State agricultural production scientists researched overhead irrigation at the UC West Side Research and Extension Center for five years, growing wheat, corn,…
Crop Production Report
…year. Planted acres are estimated at 25.0 thousand and harvested is estimated at 24.7 thousand acres, resulting in a yield of 410 cwt. per acre. Wheat – The 2016 Winter…