…Program, including a $40,000 per producer payment limit, requirement to be actively engaged in farming, meet conservation compliance and a $900,000 adjusted gross income limit. To learn more about the…
Farming from the Heart- Salinas Valley Fair Champions
This is the third week Corryn has featured her Salinas Valley Fair interviews, but this time she is including her interviews she had with the Champions of each species. First…
Petition to Legalize Industrial Hemp
…to Politico. The 2014 Farm Bill defined hemp as distinctly different from marijuana and also permitted farming pilot projects in states that have legalized cultivation. Kentucky Republican Representative Thomas Massie…
Plant Health and Resilience Research
…means to agriculture and how USDA is helping the agriculture and farming sectors mitigate and adapt to this challenge, visit USDA’s Medium entry, How Food and Forestry Are Adapting to…
Many Still Pondering Low Water Allocations
…It’s a lot easier to sit somewhere and say ‘oh well, this is farming,’ but for a lot of these farmers, it’s their livelihood, and in some cases, that’s a…
Agri View: Growing for Future Population
…carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock. Farming is the thirstiest user of our precious water supplies and a major polluter, as runoff…
“Farmcation” to Connect Farmers with Urbanites
…be in building community, but also realized just how much work small-scale farming takes. When Lesser returned to Berkeley in the fall, she and Toombs set out to create a…
Dragon Fruit Might Be Next Niche Crop
…shot hole borer. Cooperative Extension County Director Christopher Smith says they are looking for the next niche crop to keep their producers farming. “We call it our new crop development,”…
Farming from the Heart – Salinas Valley Fair Continued
Last week Corryn posted her show from last Friday about her interview with the CEO of the Salinas Valley Fair. On May 11th, King City kicked off its annual Salinas…
More Overhead Irrigation in California’s Future
…farming system and reduce costly inputs, including water, fuel, labor and fertilizer. “We’re committed to continuing our work on the whole package – reduced tillage, preserving residue, improving water infiltration,…
Almond Board: Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory Partnership
…nearly 675,000 acres of almond orchards are moderately good or better in their ability to recharge groundwater.[3] What defines California Almond sustainability? Sustainable almond farming utilizes production practices that are…
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers Violate Law, Farm Bureau Tells Congress
…jurisdiction over land and water features on the farm are already happening,” Parrish told the subcommittee. “Most ordinary farming activities conducted in areas under jurisdiction will require permits if and…
NMPF Chairman: Dairy Farm Safety Net Needs Work
…Milk Producers Federation, in testimony Tuesday before the House Subcommittee on Livestock and Foreign Agriculture. The hearing focused on the state of the livestock sectors in America, including dairy farming…
Biomass Incentives Resumed by USDA
…in rural America,” said Dolcini. “The Biomass Crop Assistance Program currently supports more than 890 growers and landowners farming nearly 49,000 acres to establish and produce dedicated, nonfood energy crops…