A study by the World Wildlife Fund UK claims the land required to feed food-producing animals is destroying the earth’s biodiversity. The World Wildlife Fund UK recently released its report,…
The Western View: Solve Fake News
solve fake news Fake news has become a real problem. Too many people get their news online, and trust without verifying, and they get bad information. Bad information leads to…
Make Your Own Hard Apple Cider
Cathy Isom has some tips about how you can make your own hard apple cider from this year’s harvest. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Make Your Own…
American Dairy Industry Wants True Free-Trade with Canada
…Federation is pushing very hard for improving the U.S.-Canada relationship when it comes to dairy, but at the same time is working hard to maintain the current dairy relationship between…
Medfly Quarantine Affects Solano Farms
…can be found at www.dontpackapest.com. Steve Adler is associate editor of Ag Alert. He may be contacted at sadler@cfbf.com. Permission for use is granted by the California Farm Bureau Federation….
San Francisco Enacting Law to Require Stores to Report Antibiotics Use in Livestock
…The San Francisco Examiner reports that the order by the San Francisco Board of Supervisors wants the grocery chains to collect the information and provide annual reports to the city’s…
USDA Issues Farm Safety Net and Conservation Payments
…details regarding ARC and PLC programs, go to www.fsa.usda.gov/arc-plc. For more information about CRP, contact your local FSA office or visit www.fsa.usda.gov/crp. To locate your local FSA office, visit https://offices.usda.gov….
Trump on KORUS to Lighthizer: Call Me a “Crazy Guy”
Online source Axios reports that President Donald Trump told U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer to portray him as a “crazy guy” during the upcoming U.S.-Korea Free Trade Agreement meeting. South…
Water Board OKs Hike in Water Quality Fees
…that is above the costs they are incurring for compliance with the General Ag Order issued by our region.” “We want to guard against a change to create what others…
Mexico Says U.S. Proposals Would Threaten Free Ag Trade
Pan Am Post Dot Com says the U.S. will be putting forth controversial proposals during the next round of North American Free Trade Agreement negotiations. The U.S. will allegedly be…
Western View: How to Donate for Hurricane Relief
…directly to disaster relief efforts. text CCUSADISASTER to 71777 or visit www.catholiccharitiesusa.org to donate. Another hardworking group is Samaritan’s Purse. They airlifted generators, food, and more for many thousands of…
“i5k” is for Insects
…Agricultural Library (NAL) built the “i5k Workspace@NAL,” which provides an online “toolshed” in which researchers work cooperatively to sequence genomes. It ensures wide access to data in a place that…
Almond Board: Seeds for Bees
…to provide floral diversity prior to and following almond bloom in California for the nearly 1.8 million colonies that come to pollinate the 2017 almond crop. Just like humans, honey…
Tomato Crop Coming in Lighter than Expected
…and research is underway to differentiate among them, he added. Southern blight—scientific name Sclerotium rolfsii—has been a prominent issue as well, with reports coming in from the Sacramento and Central…