…trend continues. More than a dozen cases were reported in 2015. Next, there’s renewed interest in oil and gas development, as well as potash mining. These activities would forever mar…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…should only be used by a certified applicator or someone under the certified applicator’s direct supervision. Snowden Enterprises distributed ‘The Fruit Doctor’ pesticide as compressed sulfur dioxide gas in cylinders…
Climate Smart Israel – Delegation Update
…time changes in their behavior; and, new technology that enables simultaneous temperature and humidity control in greenhouses for optimal yield production. A greenhouse in Israel. Our last stop of the…
SWEEP Funding
…part of the California Climate Investments, which use proceeds from the state’s cap-and-trade auctions to reduce greenhouse gas emissions while providing a variety of additional benefits to California communities. Agricultural…
Agri View: Troubled Ocean Waters
…It is important to note that significant amount of wastes enter the ocean through river, atmospheric, and pipeline discharge; construction; offshore mining; oil and gas exploration; and shipboard waste disposal….
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
…voluntarily set a goal of reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions from fluid milk by 25 percent by 2020, and has since undertaken several projects intended to help meet that goal….
Food Safe Technology
…produce and/or improve the performance of current interventions such as gas-phase antimicrobials and cold plasma. Develop protocols for implementing interventions within a multi-step approach that improves decontamination efficacy, retains product…
Two Southern California Firms Honored
…addition to using a plant-based feedstock and having lower greenhouse gas emissions, this process is also safer because it does not use high temperatures or concentrated nitric acid. The product…
State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program Assistance Workshops
…the implementation of efficient irrigation systems to save water and reduce greenhouse gas emissions. For a list of technical assistance workshops offered by recipients of this funding please visit www.cdfa.ca.gov/oefi/sweep/….
Making Growing Tamarixia a Common Practice
…pepper psyllid is a host for raising the tamarixia as apposed to your typical ACP that USDA uses. We are creating a bio-control, putting netting around our greenhouse and getting…
WAPA Urges Funding for Biomass Plants
…Committees requesting Greenhouse Gas Reduction Funds be allocated to the biomass facilities to keep their plants running. With so many plants being shut down, piles and piles of prunings are…
The Western View: Cattle Pollution Numbers
…for 18 percent of greenhouse gas emissions…” The truth is, in the U.S., raising cattle and pigs for food accounts for about 3 percent of all greenhouse gas emissions, while…
Agri View: Growing for Future Population
…to global warming, emitting more greenhouse gases than all our cars, trucks, trains, and airplanes combined—largely from methane released by cattle and rice farms, nitrous oxide from fertilized fields, and…
Technology, Innovation and Food Waste
…address food insecurity, reduce greenhouse gas emissions in landfills and promote job creation throughout the economy in recycling and recovery efforts,” said CDFA Secretary Karen Ross. “It is estimated that…