…production of food, fiber, or other plant or animal products using farming techniques that protect the environment, public health, human communities, and animal welfare. That seems like a lot to…
USDA Announces Funding for Renewable Energy and Energy Efficiency Projects
Vilsack Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack was joined by Jennifer Womble, owner of James’ Supersave Foods and Jeffrey Marstaller, owner of Cozy Acres Greenhouse announcing that rural agricultural producers and small…
USFRA Looks to Storytelling to Educate Consumers
…produce their food. With most Americans living miles from where their food is produced – and generations removed from the farm – telling the story of where our food comes…
Vilsack Announces $30 Million to Fight Citrus Disease
…citrus groves. One project will focus on lowering the pH of the irrigation water and soil to strengthen the root systems of citrus trees to help them better tolerate HLB…
West Coast Ports Close for the Weekend, Impacting Major Citrus Export Opportunity
…food destined for those that want it thereby diminishing revenues for innocent stakeholders is not a vehicle that should be pursued, but that is exactly what the two parties are…
California’s Three Largest Dairy Cooperatives Submit Proposal for California to Join the Federal Milk Marketing Order
…Land O’Lakes, Inc., one of America’s premier agribusiness and food companies, is a member-owned cooperative with industry-leading operations that span the spectrum from farm production to consumer foods. With 2013…
Success in the Cafeteria-part 3
…two segments of this series. Part 1: The approaches some schools are using to get kids to eat more and stop wasting cafeteria food. Part 2: The reasons why kids…
Agri View: Food Safety
Everett Griner talks about our food reserves being properly protected in today’s Agri View. Food Safety…
Success in the Cafeteria-part 2
…school cafeterias across the country reduce plate waste in school lunches Cathy Isom takes a look at the reasons why students are wasting cafeteria food. Success in the Cafeteria-part 2…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…for food and habitat, she said. As part of the Sutter Bypass-Butte Slough Water Users Association, Van Vleck said the group is exploring alternate water supplies, such as buying water…
UC Studies Outline Costs of Tomato Irrigation Systems
Two new costs and returns studies for growing transplanted processing tomatoes under furrow irrigation and sub-surface drip irrigation (SDI) in the Sacramento Valley and northern delta are available from the…
Success in the Cafeteria — Part 1
In the first of a three-part series, Cathy Isom looks at the approaches some schools are using to get kids to eat more and stop wasting cafeteria food. Success in…
Iteris and F4F Agriculture Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Establish Formal Partnership
…ag technology for the worldwide agriculture market. The partnership strategy will integrate Iteris’ ClearAg with F4F’s Cirrus Cloud platform. The Cirrus platform facilitates rapid and efficient integration between ERP systems,…
USDA Announces the Availability of $16 Million to Support Food Production
…efforts to improve food production and increase food security, defined as regular access to affordable, nutritious food. NIFA is funding the grants through the Agriculture and Food Research Initiative (AFRI)…