The USDA announces plans to purchase several million dollars in raisins to help feed the nation’s needy. Sabrina Hill reports. Click to Open or Download Audio Report…
Free Training on Safe Spraying for Agriculture
This January, the Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau and its partner agencies will hold the third annual Spray Safe event, a free training dedicated to educating Yuba-Sutter growers, employees, supervisors, pest control…
Online Streaming of Today’s Water Meeting
…State Water Resources Control Board are discussing water transfers and drought preparedness today. For the online streaming of the water meeting, click here. For more on the meeting, click here….
Young Cattlemen’s Conference Deadline Approaching
…Colo., then traveled to Swift & Company headquarters, visited a feedyard in Kansas, a packing plant in South Dakota, the Chicago Mercantile Exchange, and seedstock operations in Virginia, before the…
Walnut Growers Head to Yuba City
…In addition to the educational seminars, Scott says the trade show is bigger this year. He says though the show has only been around a few years, it’s growing fast,…
CFBF Scholarship Applications Open
…academic achievement, career goals, extracurricular activities, determination, leadership skills, and a commitment to study agriculture. To apply, you must be an undergraduate at a four-year accredited college or university, pursuing…
Secretary for Natural Resources Statement on Water Issues
Secretary for Natural Resources Statement on Record Low Snowpack, Need for Conservation, and Completion of Bay Delta Conservation Plan SACRAMENTO, Calif. – Secretary for Natural Resources John Laird today issued…
Beef Industry Should Focus on Consumer
…the better producers will be able to understand consumer behavior. For registration information and a complete schedule for the 2014 Cattle Industry Convention and NCBA Trade Show – visit www.beefusa.org….
State Board to Discuss Water Transfers and Drought Preparedness
…Howard, State Water Resources Control Board; Paul Fujitani, U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, Mid-Pacific Region; David Guy, Northern California Water Association; Jason Peltier, Westlands Water District; Luana Kiger, USDA Natural Resources…
USDA Addresses Threat To Citrus Industry
The U.S. Department of Agriculture is working to control a disease threatening the nation’s citrus industry. For more information: http://www.aphis.usda.gov/plant_health/plant_pest_info/citrus_greening/index.shtml http://www.ars.usda.gov/citrusgreening/ http://blogs.usda.gov/tag/citrus-greening/…
EPA West Coast Collaborative Announces Grants
…in communities where these older diesel engines operate, many of which face environmental justice challenges,” said Dennis McLerran, Regional Administrator for EPA’s Pacific Northwest Office. Investments in diesel emission reductions…
U.S. EPA fines agricultural products companies
…facilities in Glenn, Calif., Hughson, Calif., and Buckeye, Ariz. had unsealed cracks in the floors and/or walls of the facilities’ pesticide containment areas, and, in addition, the Glenn facility was…
AgNet Media Inc. Principals Now Sole Owners of AgNet West
…2012. Affiliate stations presently include: KCAA-AM, Loma Linda/San Bernardino; KERN-AM, Bakersfield; KION-AM/FM, Salinas; KPAY-AM, Chico; KRKC AM/FM, King City; KROP-AM, Brawley; KSAC-FM, Sacramento; KSRO-AM, Santa Rosa; KTIP-AM, Porterville; KFIG-AM, Fresno;…
CDFA Accepting Concept Proposals
…projects to fill gaps in nitrogen management information for specific crops grown in the San Joaquin Valley, including corn, pima cotton, processing tomatoes, walnuts, and citrus. In addition, FREP is…