David Harold’s holistic farming approach, based on building soil health through the use of diverse cropping rotations, diverse cover crop species and integrated grazing, is now the cornerstone of his…
Asian Wasps Could Help Stink Bug Control
…at least 12 North American species of stink bug egg parasites will lay eggs in BMSB egg masses. However, because the local species may not be enough to provide adequate…
Leap Year and Ag
…value comes from the fact that, like other cereal grains, its primary function is to provide the body with heat and energy. Microwave popcorn is the same as other popcorn…
South Africa Now Taking U.S. Pork
…and Opportunity Act – duty-free access for products exported to the United States – South Africa announced it would partially lift its ban on U.S. pork. “While we now can…
World Pistachio Day
…a serving of pistachios is equal to 49 nuts, which is more than any other tree nut. And since most pistachios come in a shell, the act of shelling the…
Agri View: Marijuana, a Hot Crop
…which is one of the first steps towards Endangered Species status (and all the federal protections it entails). In 2012 and 2013, Mourad Gabriel, then a doctoral student at UC…
State Water Project Allocations Doubled
…water supply in the Delta without unreasonably affecting threatened and endangered fish species. That team works to balance multiple demands in the Delta while managing water project pumping infrastructure that…
Nigiri Project Mixes Salmon and Rice Fields
…a bug buffet for small fish,” said Jacob Katz, Central California director for California Trout. “Our previous results have shown that the food-rich floodplains appear to act as an important…
House Agriculture Committee Reviews State of the Rural Economy
…the Great Depression. While members thanked the Secretary for his service, they also raised a number of concerns, including the impact that the continued outlook for depressed prices could have…
Open Data Powers Conservation Mapping Tool
…large landscape-level effort that led the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to conclude last year that the sage grouse did not warrant protection under the Endangered Species Act. Learn more…
Agri View: Women and Modern Agriculture
…labour-force statistics may actually underestimate the amount of work that women do: women are less likely than men to define their activities as work, they are less likely to report…
DWR Draft Regulations for Managing Groundwater Basins Sustainably
…basins as outlined in the landmark Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, enacted by Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. in September 2014. An overview of the draft regulations was presented to the…
California Ag Secretary Lauds Food Safety Program Ready to Implement FSMA Now
Late last year the FDA published the final Produce Rule, which is a key component of new federal food safety laws under the Food Safety Modernization Act, or FSMA. Now…
Western View: Behind the Sagebrush Rebellion
…such as protecting endangered species, which may conflict with the ranchers and miners, or any other private development. That’s where this movement to privatize federal land comes from. These people…