Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show is filled with stories covering research on smoke exposure to winegrapes, a new tool…
Another Tool for Growers Fighting Grape Diseases
…kind of contained within the vineyard to a degree. It just promotes both of those pathogens within that type of system.” Many growers addressing grapes disease in their vineyards are…
Week in Review: Apply for Direct Payments Next Week, Important Smoke Exposure Research Begins
Farmers and ranchers can begin applying for direct payments as part of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program next week. Critical research looking at smoke exposure in grapes is starting to…
The Western View: It’s Time To Open For Business
It looks like California is starting to open up, and that’s good news. Some people might not agree. However, the quarantine was not expected to stop all exposure to the…
Foods That Will Happily Grow on a Balcony
…be used to grow grapes. A grape vine just needs a bit of space on the floor, and it will happily grow upwards and produce fruit above everything else. Same…
Smoke Exposure Research in Grapes Begins Taking Shape
Support from the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Agricultural Research Service will allow important smoke exposure research to move forward to better understand the effect that smoke has on grapes. Industry…
Farm City Newsday Wednesday, 05-20-20
Today’s show is filled with stories covering details of the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program, the underlying importance of improving broadband expansion, and how smoke exposure research could lead to predicting…
Area-Wide Treatments Holding the Line for Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter
…GWSS aside from grapes and nearly 25,000 acres of citrus trees were treated as part of the program in the Southern San Joaquin Valley in 2019. Stone-Smith noted that a…
Farm City Newsday Friday, 05-15-20
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show is filled with stories covering smoke exposure research getting some funding, how weather conditions…
$1.2 Billion in Contracts Issued for USDA Food Box Program
…the program. “This is not “sour grapes” from those that may not have been awarded; this is a genuine effort to ensure integrity and confidence in the program and that…
Fresno State Enology Building Renamed After Winery Supporter
…the importance of water for growing grapes. Gumz’s father grew grapes, and his maternal grandfather was Henry Engelman, who started farming grapes near Biola in the early 1900s. The family…
Newsom Expanding Farm to Family Program
…banks,” Western Growers President and CEO Dave Puglia said in a press release. “Our growers recognize this and have more than doubled their donations of berries, baby carrots, grapes and…
Newsom Considers Passing Pandemic Cost onto Employers Through Workers’ Compensation
…work-relatedness for essential employees as it pertains to compensation benefits. Employees would be eligible for benefits paid for by employers based simply on exposure to COVID-19 even in the absence…
DPR Lists Acceptable PPE Alternatives for Handling Pesticides
…still doesn’t address our issue on the dust or the wildfire smoke regulation that Cal/OSHA has under an emergency regulation right now and will be considering next month for a…