…with bacon? “I prefer crispy American bacon, good good American. The grease, the kind of crunches when you chew it. And you don’t chew it, you just bite it.” That’s…
Agri View: Food Price Index
…most people are not even aware of. For instance, most people don’t even know they paid less for beef, pork, poultry and eggs since last September. It wasn’t much, but…
Agri View: Berry Problems
…is ‘birds of prey’. I don’t know how many there are. But some growers are trying it. Costly too. But, if it works, it saves a crop. Has anyone ever…
Postharvest Practices Influence Cherry Splitting
…significantly crack more,” Donis-Gonzalez said. This objective also looked at the packaging line as a whole. Samples were taken before and after the process. Donis-Gonzalez said that the packaging line…
Agri View: Help for Bees
Everett Griner talks about how non-farm plants will help bees in today’s Agri View. Download Help for Bees You know you don’t read or hear as much about the decline…
Agri View: Robot Farming
…from the rest of the herd. But don’t look for a driverless tractor, or a robot cowboy, anytime this year. It is going to take time. But both will be…
Tomato Growers Evaluate Domestic, Export Markets
…CEO Mike Montna told the meeting, last year’s presidential campaign was the first in recent memory in which trade was a top issue on both sides. President Donald Trump has…
Super Bowl Food Safety
With the big game coming up Sunday, Cathy Isom has some last minute food safety reminders so you don’t spoil the fun at your Super Bowl party. That’s coming up…
State Ag Directors Want NAFTA Fixes
As President Donald Trump gets set to renegotiate the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), U.S. state directors of agriculture are weighing in on which parts of the agreement they’d…
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…
Blum Center Relaunching With Focus on Food
…don’t always have enough food; helping support student researchers such as the students who serve as UC Global Food Initiative. fellows; and facilitating — including through small grants — faculty…
Almond Matters: February Means Bloom Time
…in mid-to-late February on almond trees,” Valent U.S.A. Manager of Field Development Pat Clay said. “I don’t believe that this year will be any exception…Really the only thing that would…
NCBA Cattle Industry Convention Underway
…on profitability, productivity and sustainability. Speaking to attendees Wednesday, Cameron Bruett (brew-it) of JBS USA, emphasized the significant challenges posed by competing proteins, an uncertain political environment and its impact…
Food Producers Accelerating Exports to Mexico, Searching for New Markets
…could be at risk if clashes over trade and immigration escalate between Mexico and the U.S., according to Reuters. The new Donald Trump Administration is pledging to renegotiate the North…