A successful season starts with clean floors. Set the stage for a profitable harvest by controlling weeds in your operation with top-performing herbicides. Nufarm offers a powerful weed control program…
Report Details Overall Benefits of Organic Production
…one million acres operating under organic certification. The state’s organic sector is also supported by the only state organic program which works with the USDA’s National Organic Program to establish…
How to Harvest and Use Lavender
In this series, Cathy Isom has taken you through planting, growing, and caring for Lavender. In today’s program she fills you in on how to harvest Lavender. That’s coming up…
ACP Found in Sacramento
…they return from infested regions of the world. To help protect California’s agriculture and natural resources, CDFA urges travelers to follow the Don’t Pack a Pest program guidelines (www.dontpackapest.com). Source:…
Broad Coalition Urges Congress to Protect Farm Bill Program Funding
…the 2014 farm bill — while improving access to conservation programs, maintaining a commitment to nutrition programs and providing farmers and ranchers with the risk management certainty needed in this…
Proactive IPM Solutions Grants Available
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is now accepting grant applications for its Proactive IPM Solutions Program, administered by the Office of Pesticide Consultation and Analysis (OPCA). The…
U.S. to End Trade Preference Program for India and Turkey
…two countries have been included in the Generalized System of Preferences (GSP) program for several years. The GSP program is designed to assist developing countries that may not have a…
Study Clarifies U.S. Beef’s Resource Use and Greenhouse Gas Emissions
…electricity, water, fertilizer and other inputs to raise beef cattle throughout the country—from birth to slaughter. Using a computer program called the “Integrated Farm System Model” (IFSM), his team also…
California Walnuts Receive Trade Funding for Tariff Relief
The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) recently announced awards for the Market Access Program (MAP) and the Agricultural Trade Promotion Program (ATP) granting the California Walnut Commission (CWC) a…
Progress in Combating Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter
…infestations were found in any new areas of the state last year, the Pierce’s Disease Control Program continued performing urban treatments in infested areas of Fresno, Madera, and Tulare counties. …
Annual Survey Finds 80% of Producers Believe Beef Checkoff Drives Beef Demand
Eighty percent of beef producers nationwide say the Beef Checkoff Program helps drive demand for beef. That is one major finding from a recent Producer Attitude Survey commissioned by the…
USDA Provides Funding to California to Support Projects that Protect Agriculture and Natural Resources
…that potentially pose a plant health risk; and $225,188 to support the development and evaluation of using a sterile insect release program to help manage navel orangeworm, which is a…
Petition for New Air Quality Standards Related to Wildfire Smoke
…those 18,000 structures get burned, it creates a lot of smoke and smoke affects workers,” said Heat and Agriculture Program Coordinator for Cal/OSHA, David Hornung. “We’ve got ag workers that…
Over $100 Million Cut from Available Ag Equipment Replacement Funds
…one program that Cap and Trade, the greenhouse gas money, it’s the one program that actually gets you emission reductions.” Governor Newsom’s proposed budget demonstrates a $400 million reduction in…