…video clips can be viewed on the SWEEP webpage. SWEEP Application Workshops: Yolo County June 22, 2016 (Wednesday) from 9:30 am to 11:30 am •Yolo County Farm Bureau Conference Room…
Honeybees-How to Keep Them
…Farmer How to Keep Honeybees Join the backyard beekeeping revolution and keep pollinators buzzing. The payback’s pretty sweet. By Rene Ebersole You can hardly say “honeybee” anymore without hearing the…
Farm City Newsday Podcast for June 20
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Sabrina Hill. To listen or subscribe [display_podcast] Subscribe in a reader…
Pacific Region Fruit and Nut Review
…grown in California. The production forecast is based on a survey of dried plum growers conducted by the USDA, NASS, Pacific Regional Office from May 12-31, 2016. The 2016 dried…
NACD Responds to Approval of EPA Spending Bills
…– in addition to a budget cap adjustment provision that would allow these agencies to tap into disaster assistance funding when fire expenditures top the $3.78 billion allotment. NACD supports…
NMPF Endorses Creating Tax Incentive Legislation
…farms, but as many as 8,000 farms have the potential to use them. In recent years, federal and state regulators have encouraged the entire agriculture sector to reduce farm nutrient…
Market Match Program Helps Families and Farmers
…Center to expand the number of farmers’ markets and other farm-direct sites that offer Market Match from 153 at the start of 2015, to 263 in 2016. After one year…
New Website for Northern CA Producers
…need to get all of their information together in one place to make it easier for the industry to find. Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor Dani Lightle says the central location…
2017 Rural Entrepreneurship Challenge
…food hubs, community supported agriculture programs (CSAs), farm-to-table restaurants and farmers’ markets. To become more inclusive of rural businesses, this year we have removed the requirement that businesses be located…
Almond Growers Now Have Irrigation Calculator
…the tools and the continuum are about increasing our efficiency and sustainability around California’s most valuable natural resource — water.” [1]. What defines California Almond sustainability? Sustainable almond farming utilizes…
Farm City Newsday Podcast for June 14
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Sabrina Hill. To listen or subscribe [display_podcast] Subscribe in a reader…
NMPF Chairman Mooney Speaks on Capital Hill
…Mooney said that well-negotiated trade agreements have the potential to increase export opportunities for America’s dairy farmers, but he warned that the terms of free trade agreements must be tenaciously…
NACD Welcomes Bill To Keep Red Tape At Bay
…voluntary conservation programs from costly and unnecessary reporting requirements. “Federal reporting requirements were never intended to burden farmers, ranchers, and forest landowners,” NACD CEO Jeremy Peters said. “They were meant…
FARMS Students Report on Agriculture
…Taylor Hillman interview Central Valley Grower Matt Efird at the Fresno Farm Bureau. Efird talked about the challenges they face in farming which include water quality and efficiency. AgNet West’s…