…Donate leftover pumpkins to zoos, animal shelters, farms, or community gardens. You can also turn Halloween pumpkin into a bird feeder. Just cut a pumpkin in half horizontally, empty the…
Innovative New Carrot Products Are Entering the Market
COURTESY: BOLTHOUSE FARMS A collection of innovative new carrot products will be entering the market beginning in the Spring of 2021. More and more offerings of plant-based alternatives to traditional…
Groups Rallying to Defeat Proposition 15 As Ballots Go Out
…of both the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association, and the Western Agricultural Processors Association. “It also impacts farms. If you put any permanent structures like solar, your irrigation and…
The Western View: New Climate Strategies May Benefit Ag
…into their farms. I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the Western View from AgNet West and Citrus Industry Magazine. The Western View: New Climate Strategies May Benefit Ag About the Author…
Friant-Kern Canal Repair Bill – SB 559 – Vetoed by Governor Newsom
…initially introduced by Senator Melissa Hurtado. SB 559 sought to address the failing infrastructure of the water conveyance system that more than 18,000 farms throughout the Central Valley rely on….
The Western View: Honors to A Farmer With A World-Changing Invention
…on previously marginal land. By 2013, center pivots irrigated nearly 28 million acres on 57,000 U.S. farms. The National Inventors Hall of Fame® inducts this world-changing farmer into their Hall…
NRCS Funds Innovation Through On-Farm Trials of Conservation Systems
…American Farmland Trust will stimulate the adoption of various soil health practices by involving farms in a coast-to-coast Soil Health Demonstration project demonstrating regionally appropriate soil health strategies across three…
The Western View: Of Course The Climate Is Changing, It Always Does
…– shows they had built cities and farms, all of which dried up during the lengthy droughts. The faint lines of canal systems shows how they dealt with the droughts,…
GAO Report Details How Trade Aid Payments Were Distributed
…farms behind,” Stabenow said in a news release. “Unfortunately, the Trump Administration’s unequal treatment of farmers is a pattern that we’re continuing to see in USDA’s COVID-19 relief program.” About…
Reasons to Consider Raising Peafowl on Your Farm
…by their gorgeous ornamental tail feathers. They’re incredibly easy to raise and the most common varieties found on farms are the Javanese, also called green fowl, Congo peafowl, and Indian…
CFAP 2 Application Window Begins September 21
…impact of the pandemic on our nations’ farms and ranches, and we developed a program to better meet the needs of those impacted.” Price trigger commodities are considered to be…
Industry Responds to Newsom Endorsement of Proposition 15
…who already struggle to pay their bills. ” He added, “As farms, ranches and all businesses struggle during the pandemic, and with millions of Californians unemployed or underemployed, this is…
Farmer Plants Sunflowers as an Uplift During Pandemic
…2 million sunflowers. Now anyone coming to Thompson Farms can enjoy and relax or have a picnic and wander the fields of gorgeous Sunflowers and other wildflowers. Visitors can also…
The Western View: Dangerous Year For Fire
…concerns. Plus, Covid-19 has struck some of our fire fighters. It’s reported that the pandemic has closed some fire camps, further reducing fire control efforts. If farms and ranches close…