Courtesy of California Invasive Plant Council USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) invites the public to review and comment on the draft environmental assessment relative to the control…
Monitoring Plant Metabolism to Detect HLB
…Department of Technology at the University of California, Davis, is looking at the metabolism of citrus trees and analyzing changes as indicators of stress and disease. Plants’ metabolic pathways change…
Alberta Beef Producers Want TB Support
…national eradication program since 1923. While Canada is considered to be officially free of Bovine TB today, isolated cases may occur. In late September, the CFIA was notified by the…
Agri View: Bees and Honey
…transported to California every year to pollinate tree nuts. They are also going to New York to pollinate apples. To Maine to pollinate blueberries and Massachusetts for cranberry crops. And…
The California Kitchen: Honey Roasted Herb Pistachio Garlic Cloves
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing honey roasted herb pistachio garlic cloves with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here is what you will need: 2 Garlic Bulbs…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…Preparation Laboratory in Ft. Collins, CO. Enhancing the Productivity and Sustainability of American Agriculture and Our Food Supply USDA research has supported America’s farmers and ranchers for over 100 years,…
CDFA Dairy Digester Research and Development Program
Three public stakeholder listening sessions and one webinar are scheduled during November 2016 to discuss the Dairy Digester Research and Development Program (DDRDP). These listening sessions are designed to obtain…
Beginning Farmers Learn from California
The National Farmers Union (NFU) Beginning Farmers Institute (BFI) reconvened in Salinas, California, on Friday, November 4, for the second of three annual programming sessions. Seventeen beginning farmers and ranchers…
The California Kitchen: Sautee of Greens with Caramelized Onions and Raisels
In today’s California Kitchen, learn to cook amazing sautee of greens with caramelized onions and raisels with The Untamed Chef, Albert J. Hernandez. Here is what you will need: Bacon…
Beet Curly Top Virus Update
Program-wide Notice Tomato infected with curly top viruses: Leaves can be thickened, deformed, yellowed, and rolled upwards. Symptomatic tomato leaves often develop purple veins. (Image courtesy UC-ANR) Beet leafhopper counts…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
Southern California, which in recent times ejected the red palm weevil, has a new problem to ponder. It’s the South American palm weevil, which has arrived in the San Diego…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services Deputy Under Secretary Alexis Taylor announced that the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) will offer a new Conservation Reserve Program (CRP) Grasslands practice specifically tailored…
FSA County Committee Elections to Begin
…election each year. County committee members apply their knowledge and judgment to help FSA make important decisions on its commodity support programs, conservation programs, indemnity and disaster programs, and emergency…
Pesticide Conversations Already Happening with Schools
…The California Department of Pesticide Regulations has proposed new regulations on pesticide use near schools and daycares. The proposal has several rules for growers within a 1/4 of a mile…