U.S. farmers will see their net incomes drop in 2016 for the third consecutive year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says weaker cash returns on livestock, poultry, and dairy farms…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…farms. “We’re paying $10 to $12 an hour, and they’re making $10 to $12 a day (in Mexico),” he said. Increased mechanization is a possibility, Strahm said. “We’re already seeing…
California Fighting Global Warming on the Backs of Dairy Farmers
…U.S. News and World Report publication. California dairy farmers are dealing with five years of drought, low milk prices and rising labor costs. A spokesperson for Western United Dairymen says:…
Canada Confirms More Bovine TB cases
…discovered during the removal and destruction of the initial cow’s index herd. The source of infection is still unknown. The investigation follows a notice from the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
CAWG Elects New Board Members
…serve three-year terms beginning Dec. 1. The new directors are John Balletto, owner and founder of Balletto Vineyards in Santa Rosa; Joel Maring, general manager of Maring Farms Inc. and…
First Organic Grower to be President of Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau
…organic grower as President of the organization. Tom Broz, owner, Live Earth Farms, assumed his new role with the Farm Bureau on November 1st, 2016. Tom was born in Middletown,…
Lone Star Ranch Named 2016 California Leopold Conservation Award® Recipient
…Stewards (YES) with her ranching neighbors. The group worked collaboratively with the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) during development of sediment-reduction standards for the Van Duzen River, allowing the EPA…
Back to the Future? H-2A Program Growth
…surge in H-2A worker popularity to a program from the past. In the 1940s, ’50s and ’60s, there was a Bracero program where Mexican workers would live on the farms…
U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions
…the U.S. Food Loss and Waste 2030 Champions, U.S. businesses and organizations pledging concrete steps to reduce food loss and waste in their operations 50 percent by 2030. Champions announced…
Western View: Trump Won, Now What?
…that kill family farms, and a half dozen other problems our city dwelling neighbors don’t even begin to understand. No, we don’t like the way Trump talks about women. But…
Safer, More Effective Pest Management
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) awarded $9.4 million to support 25 research and outreach projects that will help mitigate pests, weeds and…
Canada Expands TB Quarantines
Quarantines related to the discovery of bovine tuberculosis in Canada have expanded into the Saskatchewan providence. Ag Canada reports two farms in southwestern Saskatchewan were added to the list of…
NIFA Focus on Two New Projects
NIFA Grants Focus on Youth Farm Safety and Agricultural Careers for People with Disabilities The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced $832,830 in…
Canada Makes Big Investment in Dairy Industry
The Dairy Farmers of Canada organization was very happy with the government’s plans to invest $250 million dollars into the nation’s dairy farms. The government will also contribute $100 million…