…areas of California’s agriculture still affected by water shortages. Modest recovery in contract labor growth from 2014 to 2015 is apparent from labor statistics due to favorable market conditions for…
Amazon Seeking Drive-up Grocery Location in Seattle
Online retail giant Amazon is diving further into the grocery business and seeking a brick-and-mortar location in Seattle, Washington. Meatingplace reports Amazon is now looking to build a facility in…
Computer “Nudges” Help School Lunch Choices
…low-fat milk than the control group. The study did not examine actual food consumption. The nudges come from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s MyPlate program. According to its website,www.choosemyplate.gov/, MyPlate…
Delta Smelt Strategy Shows Promising Results
…factors affecting different life stages of Delta smelt and to identify the habitat, environmental and landscape conditions that could be improved to support better growth, health and reproduction.” Other actions…
Grasshopper and Mormon Cricket Suppression Program
…potential environmental effects of proposed Federal actions and alternatives significantly affecting the quality of the human environment before taking that action. Rangeland in the western United States is a valuable…
Agri View: Meat Production
…organizations to change the way they produce it. It appears obvious that they give little consideration to what it would cost to heed that advice. Sure, there is better ways…
Making it Easier to Donate Excess Food
…do that but we can help offset that and that makes it better for everybody.” Brislain said he’s seen a lot of support for the donation programs from the farming…
Agriculture Secretary Vilsack on Farm Income Forecasts
…to make significant and targeted investments across the United States toward building a more robust system of production agriculture, expanding foreign markets for U.S. farm goods, bolstering local and regional…
Psyllid Detection Locations Show Complacency
…change, oversight changes in an operation and so we just need to do a better job. At Citrus Mutual, we believe a stronger allocation toward underwriting enforcement at a local…
Farm Labor Overtime Bill Passes
…“I know in California that we are better than the polarizing discussion that this is. I know we will continue to be the leader in equality. We will continue to…
Pallet Project
…to build. Anyone can make it, yet it remains functional and looks awesome! Visit Steve Ramsey’s Woodworking for Mere Mortals website for free building plans and more how to videos….
CFTC Approves First Exchange for Hemp Derivatives
…that operate under the CFTC’s regulatory oversight for trading and processing swaps. SEFs were authorized to be created by the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act of 2010…
Agri View: Duck Eggs
…tasted something made with a duck egg. Better yet, a couple soft-scrambled with a hunk of country ham and a biscuit. That’s Agri View for today, I’m Everett Griner. …
Environmental Groups Hamper Endangered Species Conservation
…sue the Department of Interior and Fish and Wildlife Service to force action on 417 proposed listings under the Endangered Species Act. NCBA and the Public Lands Council say the…