Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Danielle Leal. Danielle Leal Multi-Media Journalist & AgNet News Hour Anchor Sponsored Content Let’s Talk Livestock Risk Protection For…
Study Results Help Understand Red Blotch Disease
…does, so they won’t pay for snake oils.” Grapevine red blotch virus was first discovered in the Oakville Experiment Station, UC Davis’ research vineyard in Napa Valley, in 2008. Since…
Growing Your Own Garlic
…plant has been started. For your planting purposes, its easiest to find the sprouts when garlic comes from a farmer’s market. Commercially, they are often treated so they won’t sprout….
Almond Matters: Working Through a Wet Bloom Period
In today’s Almond Matters, brought to you by Valent, several storms have resulted in growers working through a wet bloom period this year. For approximately the past six weeks much…
Farm City Newsday Thursday, 02-21-19
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show is filled with stories covering Tyson offering up a plant-based protein this year, the…
Almond Update: Maximum Efficiency A Goal for Water Use
The Almond Board of California put researchers to work when the negative media came out about almonds using a gallon of water per nut. UC Davis’ Fraser Shilling continued to…
Getting More from Your Bank with Farmer Mac Services
Producers looking for various types of financing assistance can often access Farmer Mac services through their local banking institution. Farmer Mac works closely with many community banks in order to…
Satellites Can Monitor Evapotranspiration Down To A Quarter-Acre
…to see how well the system works and Bridenstine hopes they can get to the point where any grower can find the data online to make educated irrigation decisions. “From the…
Growing Your Own Ginger
Cathy Isom has a few great tips about growing your own Ginger. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Growing Your Own Ginger You can grow one of the…
Farm Bill Implementation Listening Session Open to Producers
…to the Federal eRulemaking Portal at http://www.regulations.gov and search for Docket ID USDA–2019–0001. Follow the online instructions for submitting comments. You may also submit written comments at the listening session. Comments received…
Mechanical Pruning Becoming More Viable for Grape Producers
…he said. “Previously it didn’t take off because there was no real incentive.” With prodcution costs continuing to rise with minimum wage increases, that incentive is now there. There are…
Keeping Up with Competition in the World Prune Market
American producers are working to remain competitive in the world prune market as other countries are able to produce and sell their products at lower costs. Exports to Hong Kong…
Reaction to First 2019 CVP Water Allocation
…upcoming water year. However, as Valley farmers and communities have unfortunately come to expect from the government the past decade, that is not the case. “Today’s announcement of a 35…
CVP Receives Initial Water Supply Allocation
…as the operator of this complex and important infrastructure dictates we act conservatively at this time of year,” Reclamation’s Mid-Pacific Region Director Ernest Conant said in the allocation announcement. “In…