…lives up to its timeline, it would beat its competitors to the market by three years. California-based startup Memphis Meats, which has raised at least $3 million, is the only…
Brazil Cattle Prices Stumble Following Meat Inspection Scandal
…animals and instead asks to pay ranchers as much as 30 days later. The move has forced Brazil’s cattle futures to drop 17 percent this year. Producers fear they will…
Inconclusive HLB Tests Remind Growers of Disease Threat
…Research Board and University of California Cooperative Extension combined to bring California citrus growing areas an educational seminar, and it started in Exeter for Central Valley growers. Research Entomologist, and…
Dow Degree Day Report: NOW in Pistachios, June 26
…the calculator at the University of California integrated pest management website. All locations use CIMIS weather stations. NOW Degree Day reports are sponsored by Dow AgroSciences and Intrepid Edge insecticide….
California to List Glyphosate as Cancer-Causing
Monsanto is vowing to continue its legal fight against California as the state will list glyphosate as a cancer-causing chemical. California will add glyphosate to its list of chemicals known…
Strong Egg Production in May
…million layers producing egg-type hatching eggs. Egg production in California totaled 299 million in May. That is an increase of 9 million from April and an increase of 2 million…
Cattle Inventories Up from Last Year
…percent increase from May of last year, at 1.95 million head. Other disappearance in May totaled 70,000 head, down 5 percent from May 2016. In California, inventory of cattle and…
Groups Applaud EPA Proposed Rule To Repeal WOTUS
…write a new rule that protects water quality without trampling the rights of businesses and the states.” National Pork Producers Council The National Pork Producers Council hailed the announcement by…
Conaway Praises EPA Repeal of WOTUS, Calls for Continued Work to Protect Farmers and Ranchers
…America’s backyards, fields, and ditches and restoring certainty and integrity to our regulatory process. “But our work isn’t done. As the case of California farmer John Duarte clearly highlights, the…
NIFA Announces $4.3 Million for Higher Education Support
…sciences. FY 16 grants being announced today include: Auburn University, Auburn, Alabama, $14,260 University of Arkansas, Fayetteville, Arkansas, $692,054 California Polytechnic State University, San Luis Obispo, California, 139,597 University Corporation…
American Beef Arrives in China
…was a small amount to start, as some U.S. beef producers prepare their operations to meet the import requirements. American beef is known throughout many areas of China as having…
Agri View: Expanding Nut Production
Everett Griner talks about various types of nut production is not just in California and Georgia any longer in today’s Agri View. Expanding Nut Production The whole world is consuming…
Groups React to Brazil Beef Announcement
…long time. Johnson says overseas beef scandals can undermine consumer confidence in the entire beef industry, risking American producers’ bottom lines. From the National Association of Farm Broadcasting News Service….
Coffee Grown in California
…Grown in California California-grown coffee? You heard that right. The Golden State is famous for its strawberries, avocados, grapes, raisins, dates, apples, citrus and so much more. But now, it…