…Association President Rick Roberti says the industry needs to remain engaged as those issues continue to evolve. Rick Roberti President, California Cattlemen’s Association In a wide-ranging interview with “The Ag…
California Ag Faces Challenges as World Ag Expo Prepares for 60th Anniversary
…bear reintroduction. Roberti also discusses how wildfire and forest management can affect wildlife behavior and rural communities. Water remains one of the biggest issues throughout the interview. Roberti argues that…
Joseph Dart and the Birth of the Grain Elevator
…during the early 1840s. Before this innovation, moving grain from storage facilities into boats was a slow and labor-intensive process. Workers had to handle grain manually, making it difficult to…
Edward Ring: California Water Crisis Demands Action
California’s water crisis is about more than drought. It is also about whether the state has enough infrastructure to capture, store and manage water when it is available. Edward Ring…
Native Americans Shaped the Landscape Before European Settlement
…them to improve and maintain productive landscapes. These practices challenge the long-standing image of pre-European North America as a landscape completely untouched by human activity. Instead, many areas had been…
Edward Ring Warns California Must Prepare for the Next Flood
…it is available. The conversation with Ring continues in Part 2. Listen to Part 1 of the full interview below or on your favorite podcast app. Listen to previous AgNet…
Young Farmer Dolce Calandra Carries Family Legacy Forward
…offers an inside perspective on the opportunities and obstacles facing today’s young farmers. To contact Dolce through The Ag Meter, email Nick@agnetmedia.com. Listen to the full interview with Nick Papagni…
USDA Develops NovaFly for More Precise New World Screwworm Control
…a significant concern for livestock producers because the parasite’s larvae feed on living tissue and can cause serious wounds in animals. Sterile insect programs have been an important tool in…
California Cantaloupes Use Social Media to Reach Younger Consumers
…visit CaliforniaCantaloupes.com, where links to the industry’s social channels are available. The campaign represents a larger shift in how agricultural commodities communicate with consumers. Instead of waiting for younger shoppers…
Danny Bernstein: Ag Tech Could Help Save California Farms
…is reservoir.co. Bernstein joked that the company doesn’t own reservoir.com because someone would have to pay roughly $500,000 for it. Instead, Reservoir settled for reservoir.co, which it obtained for free….
Parka Helps California Citrus Growers Protect Fruit Quality and Packout
…Rio has worked with Parka for approximately 15 years, initially using the product in cherries to address cracking before incorporating it into other crops, including citrus. He says Parka has…
Henry A. Wallace and the Birth of Hybrid Corn
…commercial seed business. In 1926, he and associates established the Hi-Bred Corn Company in Johnston, Iowa. The company later adopted the Pioneer name and became Pioneer Hi-Bred, building on Wallace’s…
Mexico Resumes Live Cattle Exports to U.S. Under Screwworm Protocol
…cattle can proceed through the import process. The layered approach is intended to provide multiple opportunities to identify potential disease concerns before imported cattle move farther into the U.S. livestock…
John Deere Invests $10 Million in AI Research for High-Value Crops
…company Reservoir was announced during John Deere’s first Ruggedize conference. The initiative will focus on developing and commercializing what the companies describe as “rugged AI” technologies for high-value crops. Rather…