…808 4th Street, Clovis, California 93612. The USDA has recently released new hearing information. Visit its California Hearing Page to view new data prepared by USDA and California Department of…
Pacific Region Crop Production Report
…to be in the Central Valley. Survey data indicated a fruit set per tree of 412, above the five-year average of 336. The average September 1 diameter was at 2.248,…
Navel Orange Production Forecast
…(including Cara Cara and Blood orange varieties). Survey data indicated a fruit set per tree of 412, above the five-year average of 336. The average September 1 diameter was 2.248,…
Record Walnut Production Forecast
…low disease and insect pressures. The 2015 Walnut O.M. Survey utilized a total of 745 blocks with two sample trees per block. Survey data indicated an average nut set of…
School Children Eating More Fruits and Vegetables – Fact Sheet From the USDA
…continue to participate. Data from states indicated very few schools (only 0.51 percent of schools nationwide) reported dropping out of the programs due to struggles over providing kids healthy food….
New Drone Hitting Market Soon
…field and will bring data to growers that they haven’t seen before. Kotula said the company plans to be able to launch the drone with a sling-shot mechanism from the…
Fresno State Research Uncovers Significant Drought Impacts in San Joaquin Valley
…goal of the research was to produce for the first time, reliable data on the drought’s impact in the San Joaquin Valley – the state’s farming heartland, said Provost Lynnette…
Big Data, The Ag Value Chain and the Consumer
Big data is helping farmers to meet consumer demand, while strengthening the value chain for all. Rod Bain reports. Big Data, The Ag Value Chain and the Consumer…
Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
…costly damage.” Sinking land, known as subsidence, has occurred for decades in California because of excessive groundwater pumping during drought conditions, but the new NASA data shows the sinking is…
California State Climatologist: Do Not Count on El Nino to End Drought
Courtesy: Gurpinder Brar “California cannot count on potential El Niño conditions to halt or reverse drought conditions. Historical weather data shows us that at best, there is a 50/50 chance…
The Western View: Crowdfunding for Agriculture
…with the USDA. Another, AgDNA, has developed an automated data processing and analytics platform which gathers information using the machinery in the fields and sends it directly to growers’ smartphones…
Army Corps Criticizes EPA for Flawed Rulemaking, Warns WOTUS has Little Legal Standing and is Not Based on Science
…believes that the rule will not hold up in the courts and that it grossly misinterprets Corps data. “Corps data to EPA has been selectively applied out of context, and…
USDA, Microsoft to Launch “Innovation Challenge” to Address Food Resiliency
…blending together USDA data, novel ways of exploring and analyzing data with access to large scale computing and data analysis in the form of Microsoft’s Azure platform,” said Dr. Daron…
Proposal To Strengthen Western Water Bill for San Joaquin Valley
…so that we can understand what is not working, and why. Without collecting, collating, and reporting data on an annual basis about what flows are released and what they achieve,…