…Milk Advisory Board, and has completed Land O’ Lakes Co-op 101 and 102 programs. He received a bachelor’s degree in accounting and business/management from California State University, Fresno. Van Groningen…
Register for Produce Safety Training
…early 2018. The schedule for the Produce Safety training courses will begin on January 16 in Fresno, followed by Tulare on January 17 and then Madera on January 24. The…
NIFA Supports Increasing Rural Prosperity through Education, Mentoring, and Technical Assistance Programs for the Next Generation of Farmers and Ranchers
…California FarmLink, Santa Cruz, California, $599,074 National Hmong American Farmers Inc., Fresno, California, $300,000 First Generation Farmers, Brentwood, California, $200,000 First Nations Development of Agriculture, Longmont, Colorado, $297,506 The Florida…
Fresno State Ag Mechanization Lab Gets Update
…and medicine, grew up in Fresno near the original Fresno State campus. On a visit in September 2016, he saw the laboratory’s traditional but outdated welding and mechanical equipment during…
Register for the Western Alfalfa and Forage Symposium
…The symposium will begin on Tuesday, November 28 with a welcome and introduction from Agronomy Advisor for Cooperative Extension in Fresno and Madera Counties Shannon Mueller. The first day will…
PBW Program Highlights Pest Pressure in Cotton
…in Merced County, 29 sites in Fresno County, 24 sites in Kings County, 13 sites in Kern County, 11 sites in Tulare County, and one site in Madera County. In…
Data Integration Vital to the Farm of the Future
…West Hills College Coalinga. TERRY BRASE REVIEWS DATA ACQUISITION WITH VERIS MACHINE Director of the Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State Dr. David Zoldoske provided an introduction for the…
Training Courses to Fulfill Part of Produce Safety Rule
…in Bakersfield November 8th at The Lodge at Blue Lake in Upper Lake November 13th at the Piccadilly Inn in Fresno December 3rd at the Hyatt Regency Orange County in…
HungerU Displays the Role of Agriculture in Combatting Hunger
…States. California State University Fresno was the first campus in California for the HungerU mobile educational exhibit, which will continue traveling through the state with stops at UC Davis, UCLA,…
The Western View: Weather, Rain or Drought Ahead
It’s finally fall. This year, summer held on to the last possible second, giving us the treat of one of the hottest summers ever. Here in the Fresno, California area,…
Forage Industry Updated at Field Day
…in Fresno and Madera Counties, Shannon Mueller, spoke on alfalfa variety selection. “A lot of growers will get their information from the local seed dealer or maybe their PCA and…
Kern County Tops 2016 Ag Production
…of $7.19 billion. Tulare County, which is frequently the top performing county, came in at $6.37 billion, followed by Fresno County at $6.18 billion. Kern County growers are responsible for…
Lowest Navel Orange Projection in Nine Years
…annual Navel Orange Objective Measurement Survey results. Over 97 percent of the total 70 million cartons forecasted are estimated to be in the Central Valley, which includes Madera, Fresno, Tulare,…
Wind, Rain Hit Central Valley Vineyards
…are already on the ground. “Everybody just hopes that when an event does happen that it’s followed by sunny days and specifically breezy sunny days.” Fresno County is the biggest…