…This edition of USDA Week In Review includes wide open work spaces, the Farm Bill’s anniversary and the new budget proposal. For more information go to: www.usda.gov www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=farmbill www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2015/02/0023.xml&contentidonly=true www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov…
California’s Three Largest Dairy Cooperatives Submit Proposal for California to Join the Federal Milk Marketing Order
…Inc. corporate headquarters are located in Arden Hills, Minn. CONTACT: Marie teVelde, California Dairies, Inc., 559-623-6977, or Monica Massey, Dairy Farmers of America, 816-801-6486, or Larry Meadows, Land O’Lakes, 651-375-4010…
USDA Designates 55 Counties in California as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
…Nevada and Oregon also qualify for natural disaster assistance because their counties are contiguous. Those counties are: Arizona La Paz and Mohave Nevada Carson City, Clark, Douglas, Esmeralda, Lyon, Mineral,…
National Agriculture Day: Poster and Poetry Contests Entries Being Accepted
…Project, Santa Cruz County Fairgrounds Wednesday, March 18, 2015, 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. To obtain flyers containing contest rules, please contact the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau at (831)…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…for food and habitat, she said. As part of the Sutter Bypass-Butte Slough Water Users Association, Van Vleck said the group is exploring alternate water supplies, such as buying water…
USDA Announces the Availability of $16 Million to Support Food Production
…and products; animal health, production, and products; food safety, nutrition and health; and agriculture economics and rural communities. A letter of intent is due March 19, 2015, and full applications…
Asian Citrus Psyllid Quarantine Expansion In Santa Clara County
…counties, ACP entire-county quarantines remain in place in Imperial, Los Angeles, Orange, Riverside, San Bernardino, San Diego, Santa Barbara, Tulare and Ventura counties. The ACP is an invasive species of…
USDA Invests $18 Million to Train Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
…Farmer and Rancher Development Program empowers these farmers and ranchers to bring innovative ideas to the table when it comes to addressing food security, creating economic enterprises, and building communities,”…
USDA Video: USDA Week In Review January 30
…In this edition of USDA Week In Review, tracking the snow, chipping in for rural economies, and exporting American agriculture. For more information go to: www.usda.gov www.nrcs.usda.gov www.rd.usda.gov www.fas.usda.gov www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov…
California Continues to Lead as Fresh Market State
…blackberries, grapes, tart cherries, cranberries, California figs, California kiwifruit, California olives, peaches, pears, and strawberries. Utilized production increased from 2013 for apples, apricots, cultivated blueberries, Maine wild blueberries, boysenberries, sweet…
State and Federal Officials to Disscuss Drought Operations With California State Board of Food and Agriculture
…include: Mark Cowin, California Department of Water Resources; David Murillo, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation; Charlton Bonham, California Department of Fish and Wildlife; Janelle Beland, California Natural Resources Agency; David Orth,…
CDFA Announces New Grant Funding Opportunity for Nitrogen Management Research
…proposals, including timelines, application criteria, and priority research areas are available at: www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ffldrs/frep/CompetitiveGrantProgram.html Since 1990, the Fertilizer Research and Education Program has funded more than 160 research projects focusing on…
Kern Ag Community Continues to Promote Successful Spray Safe Effort
…which currently includes; Kern County Farm Bureau, California Safety Training Corporation, Sunrise Sprayers, Grapevine Vineyards, Wegis & Young, State Compensation Insurance Fund, Crop Production Services Inc., Grimmway Enterprises Inc., DM…
Nationwide USDA Organic Survey Underway
…organic crop and livestock producers. Farmers and ranchers can fill out the survey online via a secure website, www.agcensus.usda.gov, or return their form by mail. Federal law (Title 7, U.S….