…100 full time workers a year. That’s down from 4.5 in 2013. This is an 81 percent drop from 1994 when records were first kept when the rate was 22.7…
Environmental Impact Report Draft Released
…29 water supply contracts have the same general provisions, and each has an initial term of 75 years. From May 2013 to June 2014, DWR and the 29 State Water…
APHIS Accepting Applications for FY 2017 NCPN Cooperative Agreements
USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is inviting stakeholders to submit applications for fiscal year (FY) 2017 National Clean Plant Network (NCPN) projects under the 2014 Farm Bill…
Confidence Gaining in Brazil’s Agriculture
…confidence between and 200, a score of 100 represents neutral. This is the first time the index has topped 100 since the first quarter of 2014. Brazil’s business confidence, in…
Rabobank: Land Rent Values Must Decline
…on land values and rent prices. Rabobank says from 2006 to 2013, significant increases in commodity prices, due to surging demand, signaled the need for more land to be converted…
Zika Virus Battle
…Aedes aegypti mosquito, a tiny, black and white mosquito that can spread the Zika virus. Aedes aegypti were first identified in California in June 2013, when they were found in…
Greenhouse Gas and Fuel Efficiency Standards for Heavy-Duty Trucks
…the President’s directive in early 2014 to develop new standards that run into the next decade. The final phase two program promotes a new generation of cleaner, more fuel-efficient trucks…
Economic Analysis of the 2016 California Drought for Agriculture
…agriculture in 2016, but with much less severe and widespread impacts than in the two previous drought years, 2014 and 2015. Winter and spring were wetter in the Sacramento Valley,…
Port Workers Agree to Discuss Contract Extension
The International Longshore and Warehouse Union delegates last week voted to discuss a contract extension with the Pacific Maritime Association. Pro Farmer reports an extension would spare shippers the prospect…
Farm Bureau Asks USDA for Emergency Dairy Assistance
…$16 billion since the record highs of 2014. USDA is projecting a 2016 average milk price of $15.70 per hundredweight, down 35 percent from 2014 and the second-lowest level in…
NMPF Asks USDA for Assistance
…cheese (between 2014 and 2016, U.S. cheese exports dropped by almost 20 percent). The current national price for farmers’ milk is $14.50 per hundredweight, or $1.25 per gallon, the lowest…
FDA Memo Urges ‘Reset’ on Nutrition Goals
…“there is a growing appreciation for how many health problems in the U.S. have nutritional causes.” The review was completed in December of 2014 but never released to the public….
CA Nitrogen Assessment Brings Improvement Opportunities
…management training for Certified Crop Advisers Between 2014 and 2016, approximately 900 Certified Crop Advisers participated in a nitrogen management training program coordinated by UC ANR’s California Institute for Water…
CA Free of TB Testing for Cattle Movement
…2008 and 2013. These herds have all been declared free of the disease. “This announcement is several years, thousands of lab tests and hundreds of herd inspections in the making,”…