…the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from AgNet West. The California Kitchen: Crab Corn Chowder For this and many more of these recipes visit: www.ajhtheuntamedchef.com Watch Albert’s Cooking…
Groundwater Monitoring Improves
DWR/Local Groundwater Monitoring Partnership Expands and Improves The latest update on California’s efforts to track groundwater shows that 94 percent of the state’s 127 high- and medium-priority groundwater basins are…
Mid-Year Field Crop and Acreage Production
…percent below 2015. California’s acreage seeded to wheat other than Durum totaled 420 thousand acres, up 5 percent from last year. An estimated 175 thousand acres of California’s wheat other…
Smelt Plan Calls for More Water Release
Strategies Aimed at Improving Survival of Endangered Fish, But Call for New Summer Water Release Image provided by UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences The California Department of Natural Resources…
Partnership Keeps Pressure on Nut Cargo Theft
…WAPA in its legislative efforts.” About Western Agricultural Processors The Western Agricultural Processors Association represents tree nut huller/sheller and processors of almonds, pistachios, walnuts, and pecans in California on regulatory…
CA Welcomes Farmers Market Proclamation
California welcomes proclamation of National Farmers Market Week in August by Karen Ross, Secretary, California Department of Food and Agriculture Farmers Market in San Francisco, California Tom Vilsack recently signed…
Citrus Forecast has Slight Changes
…last month. The forecast of California grapefruit production is unchanged at 3.9 million boxes. The California Lemon forecast at 21.8 million boxes, increasing 800 thousand boxes from last month. The…
Forecasting Temperatures Easier Than Rain
…Rain Variability and Forecasting California weather can be hard to predict outside of a relatively short period of time. AgNet West has talked about this issue before with California Department…
Identifying Ants First Step in Control
…a pretty good degree of certainty, whether you are identifying that ant correctly.” Tollerup added that the University of California IPM website has great visual references to help identify ants….
The California Kitchen: Elote (Corn on the Cob)
…To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from AgNet West. The California Kitchen: Elote (Corn on the Cob) For this and many more of these recipes visit:…
Considerations for Codling Moth Treatment
…moth, there are a coupe of important things to remember. The first is that best management practices for controlling navel orangeworm damage in walnuts heavily depends on keeping codling moth…
Basin Boundary Modifications Update
DWR Releases Draft of Approved Changes to California Groundwater Basin Boundaries DWR will hold a series of public meetings to present the Draft Approved Basin Boundary Modifications this week, provide…
Weigh a Bee
Entomologists, Engineers Work Together to Weigh a Bee By Andy Fell, UC Davis California yellow-faced bumblebee approaching a California poppy. Wild bumblebees are important pollinators. UC Davis researchers are studying…
Water Challenges Make Conservation Standard
Conservation will likely be a regular practice for California’s water future even when changes come to the water system. Challenges continue again this year despite an increase in precipitation this…