…recognized brands and DuPont’s proprietary PrecisionPac® technology. These products bring significant diversification to FMC’s crop exposure in herbicides, as well as increasing the balance of pre-emergent and post-emergent applications in…
The California Kitchen: Smoked Salmon
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing smoked salmon with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here is what you will need: 4 Salmon Steaks 4 T Cajun Season…
USDA Funding to Provide Fellowships for Research and Extension Experiences for Undergraduates
…State University project provides summer exposure of the agricultural sciences to undergraduate students from non-research oriented campuses. NIFA invests in and advances agricultural research, education, and extension and promotes transformative…
Pesticide Rule Revisions Help, Still Unneeded
…goes through an exposure assessment/risk assessment and is either not registered if it’s going to cause a problem, or has conditions placed on it to prevent that from happening,” Isom…
Proposed Pesticide Rules Near Schools Revised
…state. The proposed regulation would provide an extra measure of protection to public K-12 school sites and licensed child day care facilities from the risk of short-term pesticide exposure, and…
Grape Crush Shows Bounce-Back Year
…2015; white wine grapes, $598.07, up 10.7 percent from 2015; raisin grapes, $213.64, down 13.7 percent; and table grapes, $153.05, down 39.4 percent In 2016, Chardonnay continued to account for…
CA Farmers Monitor Storms’ Impact on Crops, Water
…ultimately reduce yields. Hay fields have also flooded. Soggy or flooded fields will delay planting for a number of crops. • Grapes—Vineyards in various grape-growing regions have been flooded. Farmers…
California Preliminary Grape Crush Report
…2015. Average prices for the 2016 crop by type were as follows: red wine grapes, $899.44, up 13.9 percent from 2015; white wine grapes, $594.01, up 9.9 percent from 2015;…
Agri View: Berry Problems
…a lot of thought to. It is little birds. They do more damage to blueberries, blackberries, even grapes than all of the other insects combined. Alright now how do you…
Agri View: Popular Breakfast Food
…that the most popular breakfast food in the world is bacon. Sliced bacon. No, smoked sliced bacon. Not many people know that without the flavor produced by smoke, bacon would…
Insider Shares Political Realities at Record-Breaking Cattle Industry Convention
…Her exposure to the Washington scene brought an insider’s knowledge as keynote speaker at the general session, which was sponsored by Laird Manufacturing. Having grown up in Colorado and Wyoming,…
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
…adjustments,” Carpin said. “We’ve grown grapes for thousands of years, and we do it very well, but growing grapes is a tricky art and science. “You don’t want too much…
6 Things to Know About EPA Review of Pyrethroids
…a cumulative risk assessment considering all of the pyrethroids together, combining exposure from food and water, and from uses in and around homes and on pets. Overall, pyrethroids are much…
Statistics Available for California Crop Year 2015
…and nuts are grown in California. California’s top-10 valued commodities for 2015 are: Milk and Cream— $6.29 billion Almonds — $5.33 billion Grapes — $4.95 billion Cattle and Calves —…