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Farm Bureau Re-Elects President, Elects New Vice President
…past president of the Mariposa County Farm Bureau and the Merced/Mariposa County Cattlemen’s Association, and president-elect of the California chapter of the American Society of Farm Managers and Rural Appraisers….
Push for Local Food in Schools
…the National Council of Farmer Cooperatives have urged Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack to strengthen enforcement of the “Buy American” provision for participants in the National School Lunch Program and…
COOL Update: NFU on Voluntary Labeling
…on the WTO’s tariff decision: The World Trade Organization has set the retaliation amount Canada and Mexico can place on American products in retaliation for the U.S. Country of Origin…
U.S. Cotton Sector Facing Difficult Economic Conditions
…state chairman, American Cotton Producers, Marianna, Ark.; Shawn Holladay, an NCC director from Lubbock, Texas; Kent Wannamaker, president, Southern Cotton Growers, Saint Matthews, S.C.; Cannon Michael, a NCC director from…
Farming Simulator
…environment designed with typical Eastern-European farmland in mind, adding hundreds of new acres to the already existing European and American maps from Farming Simulator 15. This new map is filled…
2015 California Leopold Conservation Award Winner Recognized
…coast. Through conservation easements in cooperation with the Shasta Land Trust, the Rickerts have preserved some of the state’s most spectacular wildflowers, and protected sensitive vernal pools and riparian areas….
Cooperation Among Farmers Will Be Essential for Future, Farm Leader Says
…from their land, “they had lost one of the greatest assets they had had.” As a result, a significant amount of Australian farmland will be permanently fallowed. “It didn’t need…
New Pig Breed Resistant to Deadly Disease
…have extreme difficulty reproducing, don’t gain weight and have a high mortality rate. To date, no vaccine has been effective, and the disease costs North American farmers more than $660…
Delta is Unstable on Many Fronts
…lifeline-irrigation for more than a million acres of farmland, water supply for 23 million residents, and critical habitat for migrating birds, two-thirds of the state’s salmon and many other aquatic…
Pistachio Production Lowest Since 2008
…American Pistachio Growers Executive Director Richard Matoian says the blanking issue hit the pistachio industry this year hard. He says it was an alternate bearing year anyways for the industry…
Avocado: Healthy Fats
A survey by the Hass Avocado Board reveals that 25-percent of American consumers’ do not understand the difference between good and bad dietary fats. The same percentage of respondents admitted…
Agri View: Tree Phenomenon
Trees. Not many people see trees as an American crop. America grows more trees than any other country. America supplies more wood for building than anywhere else. We plant two…
Sonoma County Woman Wins Farm Bureau Discussion Meet
…Discussion Meet to be held next month at the American Farm Bureau Federation Annual Convention in Orlando, Fla. The California Farm Bureau Federation works to protect family farms and ranches…