…your National Farmers Market Week events. You may be referred to an aide who handles agriculture or scheduling issues. Don’t be disappointed! These are the people who advise their bosses…
Agri View: Honeybee Problem Identified?
…is some kind of device that can remove the mite from the bee as it crawls through the hive. Then the bee eats the mite. I don’t know about that…
Governors Strongly Support TPP
…projected to boost the U.S. economy by $4.4 billion annually. Froman told the audience, “We’ve got to get it done this year. If we don’t get it done, given the…
Cotton Tour Connects Growers
…agencies, but also from people outside of agriculture who really don’t understand that their food is coming from their backyard,” Hall says. “It’s good for growers from different regions to…
Agri View: Farm Vote
…other countries. I don’t mean guns, tanks and airplanes. I’m talking about wheat, rice and cotton. We export a lot of just about everything on our farms. But, it seems…
Fresno Food Expo Reports Record Year
…processes. “The international buyers really love the fact that they get to meet the owners behind each company, as they don’t get that experience at other trade shows,” said Alicia…
Good Weeds
…Round Up, or organically ripping and tearing at them with abandon. It is the way we were raised. However, things can be different. While weeds aren’t necessarily always in our…
Scope of New Olive Disease
…are still a lot of unknowns, including how far spread the disease is. “I don’t know that we know the extent of it,” Lightle says. “Up here in the Northern…
Fighting Public Misinformation About Food
…the Internet and I watched some so-called documentaries,” Miller says. “There is a lot of money being paid by big corporations to sell their products and sometimes they don’t really…
UCCE Helps Hmong Farmers Weather Drought
…UCCE Hmong agricultural assistant, has hosted the one-hour show each Tuesday afternoon on KBIF 900 AM for 19 years. “Sometimes we don’t see the farmers that often. They are busy…
Robot Aims to Automate Produce Handling
…it because we don’t have sensors in the hand,” Vause says. “Since it’s made of rubber, think of picking up an apple with two balloons. You take the balloons and…
National Tequila Day
…In fact, Jose’Antonio Cuervo held the first license for manufacturing the favored beverage, courtesy of the King of Spain. He kept well-known company. Don Cenobio Sauza and Félix López, also…
Adapting Drone Technology for California Ag
…in agriculture so far is used on massive farms with purposes California growers don’t have much need for. “If you look into drones and agriculture, probably the biggest use you…
Shade Plants
No shade, no problem. Cathy Isom tells us about the crops that don’t need a lot of light to thrive in our gardens. That’s coming up on This Land of…