…long-term mean. Climate.gov figure from CPC data. Click for Large image. In South America, southern Uruguay, Paraguay, and southern Brazil have received much more rain than their long-term December–February average,…
CA Almond Acreage Increases Again
…parts: ·Estimated almond acreage — bearing, non-bearing, and total. ·Detailed data by variety, year planted, and county — as voluntarily reported by almond growers and maintained in the NASS data…
Measuring Conservation Impacts on Water Quality
…fields, providing data to evaluate the success of various conservation efforts. The funding is available to farmers located across key watersheds in nine states and is part of USDA’s ongoing…
SWP Allocations Reach 60 Percent
…– 60 percent 2006 – 100 percent DWR’s California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) Web sites show current water conditions at the state’s reservoirs and weather stations. Reservoirs: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action Precipitation: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow_rain.html…
Almond Update: Growers Input Needed on ILRP
…do. She also points out a third issue. She says it’s a lot of data collection without anyone at the state level who is prepared to analyze and review the…
NASS Mid-Year Surveys
…livelihoods is interested in the results.” NASS gathers the data for the June Agriculture Survey online, by mail, phone and through in-person interviews. For the June Area Survey, agency representatives…
CA Students Honored
…network of flow sensors that analyzes real-time data and assesses flood risk in her community. “Urban floods can have devastating consequences on human life, the environment, and the economy,” said…
$4.7 Million Available in Grants
…40,000 local and regional food businesses and infrastructure projects since between 2009. Industry data estimates that U.S. local food sales totaled at least $12 billion in 2014, up from $5…
Strawberry Commission Answers ‘Dirty Dozen’
…Pesticide Data Program report the “dirty dozen” authors state they base their list upon. Among the key findings: “Residues do not pose a safety concern.” Strawberries are considered a nutrient…
CA Grape Acreage Report
The California Grape Acreage Report, 2015 Crop detailed data is now available online. Data is available for download in both PDF and Excel formats by table or as a PDF…
Agri View: Drone On
…drones will drastically transform U.S. agriculture, in one chart Robots are beginning to transform farming in the U.S., from autonomous mowing and plowing to so-called precision agriculture, a data-based approach…
California Grape Acreage Report
…the estimated grape acreage, the grape acreage data base was compared with data provided from the pesticide application data maintained by County Agricultural Commissioners and the Department of Pesticide Regulation….
Exemption Granted for PSHB Management
…new tool to combat PSHB. The Commission has been working for more than a year with researchers at the University of California, Riverside to develop the required efficacy data and…
Agri View: SNAP Fraud
…data available). The federal government is aggressively fighting SNAP trafficking. USDA and the Obama administration are actively working on behalf of American taxpayers to protect the federal investment in the…