…in my area? Can I hire enough people at the right time to harvest it? If not, can it be harvested mechanically? Does my farm have the quantity and quality…
USDA to Issue Disaster Assistance to Help Honeybee, Livestock and Farm-Raised Fish Producers
…markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit http://www.usda.gov/farmbill. To learn more about…
Gov. Brown Directs First-Ever Statewide Mandatory Water Reductions
…temporary relocation assistance to families who need to move from homes where domestic wells have run dry to housing with running water. Invest in New Technologies The order helps make…
Ag Secretary Vilsack Announces Approximately $23 Million Available for Citrus Greening Research
…management tools; expanding access to rural credit; funding critical research; establishing innovative public-private conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to…
California Prospective Plantings for 2015
…percent from last year. Hay, All – California producers intend to harvest hay from 1.23 million acres, down 11 percent from last year. Nevada hay growers plan to harvest 340…
USDA Extends ARC and PLC Deadlines
…innovative public-private conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information,…
USDA Provides $57.9 Million to Protect Agriculture and Plants from Pests and Diseases through the 2014 Farm Bill Section 10007
…conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit www.aphis.usda.gov/farmbill….
USDA Provides One-Time Extension of Deadline to Update Base Acres or Yield History for ARC/PLC Programs
…conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/farmbill….
Toomey, Feinstein & Flake Legislation Shortsighted Policy
…2014 yielded a record corn crop and the price of corn dropped precipitously throughout the harvest, even as food costs increased. “The authors of this legislation fail to understand the…
Big Fresno Fair Announces New San Joaquin Valley Olive Oil Competition
…competition is open to all olive oil producers in the state of California with olive oil made from the most recent olive harvest. There will be two classes for entries:…
Almond Board of California Leadership Program Begins Seventh Year
…as a rootstock budding demonstration at Burchell Nursery in March, to almond quality and food safety seminars in the spring and summer, tours of almond harvest and processing facilities in…
Vilsack Announces $30 Million to Fight Citrus Disease
…conservation partnerships; developing new markets for rural-made products; and investing in infrastructure, housing and community facilities to help improve quality of life in rural America. For more information, visit www.usda.gov/farmbill….
Free Bird-Friendly Farming Workshops
…and farmers: Short-term flooding of fields in summer, No-till, no-chop rice fields, Post-harvest residue management of corn fields, Winter flooding of corn fields with staggered flood-up, Winter flooding of fields…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…his business will decline at least 50 percent this year — and that means he won’t be hiring any part-time employees during rice harvest in September and October. Van Dyke’s…