…eat, just as important as the food or crops we don’t eat. Today Everett Griner talks about synthetics challenging cotton in today’s Agri View. Cotton Challenged Learn more about cotton….
Agriculture Partners Host Fresno Outreach Conference for Latino Growers
The National Center for Appropriate Technology (NCAT) has teamed up with the USDA to host a first-of-its-kind Growing Together conference in Spanish tailored for Latino farmers and ranchers statewide. The…
Proposal to Revoke Chlorpyrifos Food Residue Tolerances
…control pests which threaten more than 60 different crops in California, including almonds, alfalfa, walnuts, oranges, cotton and grapes. Earlier this year, the California Department of Pesticide Regulation changed the…
Sustainable Groundwater Management Act Meetings Set In Clovis, Easton and Kerman
…locations: Clovis – Wednesday, November 4, in the Clovis City Council Chambers (1033 Fifth Street – Clovis) Easton – Friday, November 6, at the Easton CPDES Hall (172 W Jefferson…
Growth Energy Makes Major Gift to Agricultural Education Scholarship Fund
…three years. The Upper Division scholarship from the National Association of Agricultural Educators is for students majoring in agricultural education during the semester when they student teach. “Student teaching can…
Diets and Weight Loss
…and Weight Loss-Part 1 Read more about Dr. Kevin Hall, Senior Researcher, National Institutes of Health. Check out an incomplete list of diets, according to Wikipedia, that you may be…
Cotton Tour Brings Farm Awareness
This slideshow requires JavaScript. The Sustainable Cotton Project held its annual cotton tour in the Central Valley in partnership with The North Face and the State Water Resources Control Board….
USDA Issues Safety-Net Payments to Farmers Facing Market Downturn
…other crops after marketing year average prices are published by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service. Any disbursements to participants in ARC-County or PLC for long and medium grain rice (except…
GMO Testing Pilot Project to Ensure Compliance with National Organic Program
…with the national organic standards. That’s good for growers and policymakers, and it will also give retailers and consumers added confidence in the decisions they make in the marketplace.” One…
National Co-op Month: A Reminder of the Cooperative Nature of Food and Agriculture
…National Co-op Month. The USDA has found that cooperatives earned $6.5 billion in net income and generated $246.7 billion in total revenue last year. Net income increased 16.5 percent while…
No More Constraints on U.S. Cotton Policy
The National Cotton Council opposes any efforts to further limit U.S. cotton policy in the World Trade Organization’s (WTO) December Ministerial in Nairobi, Kenya. That was one of the key…
USDA Video: Finding Fall Colors
…give the yellow color to these oak leaves found on the Modoc National Forest in California. Pigments are a natural component of healthy leaves during the growing season. U.S. Forest…
USDA Invests in Locally-Led Conservation Projects Through New Regional Conservation Partnership Program
…three available funding pools: state-level, multistate and national, and critical conservation areas (California Bay Delta, Chesapeake Bay Watershed, Colorado River Basin, Columbia River Basin, Great Lakes Region Longleaf Pine Range,…
Vilsack Stresses Almond Industry’s Economic Importance
…the country’s infrastructure needs. He called for significant investment and said it is not just a California problem but a national infrastructure problem that needs to be dealt with by…