…Bernardino counties are available online at:www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/pe/InteriorExclusion/hlb_quarantine.html. Please check this link for future quarantine expansions in these counties, should they occur. Quarantines are already in place for HLB in portions of…
The Western View: Farmbot
…plants that are growing in the wrong places. You can order your farmbot off their website at www.farmbot.io <http://www.farmbot.io/>. I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the Western View from AgNet West….
Swine Disease Monitoring System in Development
Farm Journal’s Pork Network Dot Com reports the Swine Health Information Center has funded a nearly real-time monitoring system for swine disease across the globe. The system will include the…
IBM Announces New Food Traceability Program
A crate of oranges being scanned as part of a food safety blockchain. Courtesy of IBM A group of companies in the global food chain announced a partnership with IBM…
AFBF, AFBIS, Others, Propose Dairy Revenue Protection Insurance Concept
…fall. Insurance Dairy farmers can learn more about the proposal and provide their comments at www.farmbureausellscropinsurance.com. Provided by the American Farm Bureau Federation with AFBF Market Intelligence Director John Newton…
NIFA Invests $35 Million in Specialty Crop Research
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced 12 new grants totaling $35 million for science-based solutions and new technology for the specialty crop…
NFU Hires Steckel to Make Push for Biofuels
…will continue its avid support of the RFS and pursue innovative policy solutions that expand renewable energy demand, development, and infrastructure.” The effort follows a special order of business that…
Groups See Pruitt NCBA Video Biased Against WOTUS
…and to urge cattle producers to submit official comments on the issue. The EPA’s deadline for comments is Monday, Aug. 28. You can submit comments through NCBA’s website here: http://www.beefusa.org/newsreleases1…….
USDA Rolls Out New APHIS Compliance Database and Search Tool
…Welfare Act compliance records. The public search tool is a component of the Animal Care Information System (ACIS) and will allow APHIS to make animal welfare information publicly available and…
Cattle Loss Limited from Montana Wildfires
…Drovers Cattle Network Dot Com that cattle losses from the fires have been limited. 29 fires are currently active in Montana, with the bulk of them burning in the western…
Plant Now for Fall Harvest
Cathy Isom fills us in about some things to plant right now for the Fall harvest. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Plant Now for Fall Harvest Now…
California Pursues New Health Protections on Chlorpyrifos
…materials and the written public comments to the Developmental and Reproductive Toxicant Identification Committee. The committee is an independent panel of 10 scientific experts that determine whether chemicals are added…
EPA Extends WOTUS Repeal Comment Period
…Army Corps of Engineers, will accept comment through September 27th. The original deadline for the comment period was set for August 28th. The EPA formally proposed to repeal the rule…
2016 Air Monitoring Shows Pesticides Below Health Screening Levels
…of the 37 chemicals (32 pesticides and five breakdown products) that are monitored: 12 were not be detected at all 14 were only detected at trace levels and 11 were…






















