In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing California crab corn chowder with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here’s what you’ll need: 2 T Olive Oil 1 Onion Small…
The California Kitchen: Mexican Street Corn
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing Mexican street corn with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here’s what you’ll need: Corns In Husk Raw Butter Mayo Lemon Lime…
The California Kitchen: Chayote Calabacitas Southwestern Style Vegetables
…white Onion Small Dice 1.5 oz Red Bell Pepper 2 Minced Garlic Cloves 1 T Corn Oil 8 oz Corn Kernels 1 LB Chayote Diced Small 2 Anaheim Chiles Roasted,…
The Western View: The Farmer’s Daughter
…her family’s farm. Amanda Zaluckyj, creator of the Farmer’s Daughter USA website, used new media to do this, with a blog that she updates frequently. She followed the family’s corn…
Water for Farms – a Briefing by the Public Policy Institute of California (PPIC)
…alfalfa and corn silage—inputs for the important dairy and cattle industries—generate less revenue per unit of water. In the water-limited San Joaquin Valley, orchards grew from 34 percent to 40…
California Prospective Plantings for 2015
…8 percent below the acreage seeded in 2014. Corn – California farmers were expecting to plant 430 thousand acres of corn for all purposes in 2015, a 17 percent decrease…
USDA Extends ARC and PLC Deadlines
…PLC include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium grain rice (which includes short…
USDA Provides One-Time Extension of Deadline to Update Base Acres or Yield History for ARC/PLC Programs
…Covered commodities include barley, canola, large and small chickpeas, corn, crambe, flaxseed, grain sorghum, lentils, mustard seed, oats, peanuts, dry peas, rapeseed, long grain rice, medium grain rice (which includes…
Toomey, Feinstein & Flake Legislation Shortsighted Policy
…2014 yielded a record corn crop and the price of corn dropped precipitously throughout the harvest, even as food costs increased. “The authors of this legislation fail to understand the…
DuPont Pioneer Enhances Grower Service and Support
…near-term launches in corn and solid progression in its North America soybean lineup. Pioneer launched Pioneer® brand Optimum® Leptra™ corn hybrids in the southern U.S. in 2014 under a stewarded…
USDA Secretary to Keynote Commodity Classic
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will make his sixth visit to Commodity Classic, the annual convention and trade show for corn, soybean, wheat and sorghum growers. The secretary will…
Free Bird-Friendly Farming Workshops
…and farmers: Short-term flooding of fields in summer, No-till, no-chop rice fields, Post-harvest residue management of corn fields, Winter flooding of corn fields with staggered flood-up, Winter flooding of fields…
USDA Seeks Applications for Conservation Innovation Grants
…the generation and sale of nitrous oxide credits on corn fields in the Midwest. This project demonstrated that greenhouse gas emissions can be reduced on cropland while maintaining corn yields….
CDFA Accepting Concept Proposals for 2015 Fertilizer Research and Education Grants
…research projects are requested to fill gaps in nitrogen management information for specific crops, including corn, pima cotton, processing tomatoes, walnuts, citrus, and deep rooted vegetables such as carrots. Furthermore,…