…in the midst of its fifth year of severe drought, and in 2014 Gov. Jerry Brown declared a drought emergency in the state. To meet its surface water needs, the…
Climate Smart Israel – Visiting the ‘Financial Innovations Lab’
…Center. The topic of the day was accelerating the growth of agricultural technology in Israel and California, a focus resulting from the 2014 M.O.U signed by Governor Brown and Prime…
Agri View: Farm Trends
…second, reached record highs in 2012 and 2013 and has been steadily dropping ever since, but this 2015 figure is way lower than it’s been—the lowest, in fact, since 2009….
Climate Smart Israel – to Jerusalem and the Sea of Galilee
…which was listed in 2014 by MIT in its top-50 smartest companies. It is a very small company among giants like Amazon, Google and Tesla. It’s two founders have backgrounds…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…pay $34,320 in civil penalties, and has corrected all the identified compliance issues. The California Department of Pesticide Regulation inspected the facility in October 2013. Based on evidence collected during…
Agri View: GMO Law
…eat them. This led consumer groups to call on the government to place GMO labels on products made using the bio-engineered ingredient. In 2014, legislators in Vermont adopted a law…
Marijuana Sales
…cookie loved by millions of Americans. Between April 2014 and April 2015, its sales amounted to $711 million. Weed sales were five times higher than that. Dasani brand bottled water…
Agri View: Pesticide Residue
…samples tested by the U.S. Department of Agriculture in 2014 contained pesticide residues – a surprising finding in the face of soaring consumer demand for food without synthetic chemicals. This…
California Delegation Set to Learn Conservation Strategies
…company in the Negev Desert that also does business in California. The delegation furthers a relationship between California in Israel that was cemented in 2014, when Governor Brown and Prime…
Sheep Shearing School Prepares Students
…touch and refer jobs to one another. Several previous students are making a living a sheep shearing. One is Stephanie Wilkes, a 2013 sheep shearing student who now runs her…
Crop Production Report
…cwt., 20 percent higher than the 2014 production. Yields averaged 340 cwt. from 18.5 thousand acres harvested. Sugar Beets – The 2016 sugar beet production forecast is 1.09 million tons,…
Agri View: Small Towns
…living in nonmetro counties remained essentially unchanged between July 2014 and July 2015, after 4 years of modest population losses. The 2014-15 improvement in rural population change coincides with a…
Drought Alert: Call to Re-examine ‘Harmful Actions’
…water is used to enhance the environment. In 2014 and 2015, Reclamation was unable to meet its legal obligation to make specified quantities of water to managed wetlands, where water…
Officials Say No Link between California Cage laws, Nevada Poultry Sales Increase
…200 percent since 2010, from a level of $5.32 million to $15.9 million in 2014. The jump comes as the state’s overall agriculture production value rose by 50 percent during…