…January of 2019. Early talk about the new regulation included several points of contention including the type of work, employee clothing, and overall temperature. AgSafe’s Assistant Director of Education Anna…
USDA Appoints Members to Fruit and Vegetable Industry Advisory Committee
…Kelly Carl (KC) Ely, FreshPoint, Oklahoma City, Okla. Bret Erickson, J&D Produce, Edinburg, Texas Molly Gleason, Illinois Stewardship Alliance, Springfield, Ill. Julie L. Gordon, Cherry Marketing Institute, Dewitt, Mich. Kiley…
Secretary Perdue Rings the Closing Bell at NYSE
…Sue Poole Owner Trinity Valley Dairy, NY Derek Poole Owner Trinity valley Farms, NY Kelsi Poole Owner Trinity valley Farms, NY Julie Kurr Agronomy Business Manager Agfinity Inc. Sarah Dean…
Register for Annual Tri-County Walnut Day
…UC Cooperative Extension Livestock and Range Advisor for Kern, Tulare and Kings Counties Julie Finzel on vertebrate pest management in walnut orchards. Information on using mating disruption techniques for codling…
Register for Agricultural Reuse Workshop
…begin at 8 a.m. followed by a welcoming address from Julie Minton, Program Director at WE&RF for Water Reuse and Desalination. Attendees will be provided with time for a brief…
California Produce Getting Legislative Support
…State on October 14. AB-822, “Institutional purchasers: sale of California produce,” was introduced by Assemblywoman Anna Caballero, from Salinas. The governor had 977 bills up for his consideration, signing a…
Disease Resistant Strawberry Research Gets Funding Boost
…Natural Resources; Alexander Putman at UC Riverside; Julie Guthman at UC Santa Cruz; Gerald Holmes and Kelly Ivors, both at Cal Poly; and Seonghee Lee, Natália Peres and Vance Whitaker,…
Another Study Calls Dairy Fats OK
…Guo Arne Astrup Julie A. Lovegrove Lieke Gijsbers David I. Givens Sabita S. Soedamah-Muthu Abstract With a growing number of prospective cohort studies, an updated dose–response meta-analysis of milk and…
Influence of Income and Prices on Global Dietary Patterns by Country, Age, and Gender
by Andrew Muhammad, Anna D’Souza, Birgit Meade, Renata Micha, and Dariush Mozaffarian USDA Economic Research Service What Is the Issue? Worldwide changes in eating habits and poor nutrition are contributing…
National Pork Producers Delegate Body Appointed
…David R. Lewis Arkansas: Patrick Pollack, Jason Henson California: Ken Dyer, David M. Lopes Colorado: Julie McCaleb, Roc M. Rutledge Connecticut: Hazel T. Secchiaroli, Jonathan G. Secchiaroli Delaware: John B….
Obama Designates New National Monuments Along California Coast
…Senator Barbara Boxer (D-CA), former Representative Lois Capps (D-24-CA), and Representatives Anna Eshoo (D-18-CA) and Jared Huffman (D-2- CA) introduced the California Coastal National Monument Expansion Act (S. 1971 and…
USDA Seeks National Mango Board Nominees
…an application, contact Manuel Michel or Anna Deschamps-Polonia of the National Mango Board at (407) 629-7318, extension 112, or email Mmichel@mango.org or APolonia@mango.org. The information is also available on the…
Georgia Dock Chicken-pricing Index Suspended
…AgNet Media talked with Julie McPeake, chief communication officer for the Georgia Department of Agriculture, and she explains how the index works and that improvements are being made to it….
Schools partner to Share Love of Ag Education
…teacher Jami Beck of Three Rivers School, in a community of the same name in the Sierra foothills, watched a presentation by Visalia sixth-grade teacher Julie Cates and struck-up a…