…Harvest and Store Your Homegrown Figs Figs are easy-going until harvest time. They can become a finicky crop when it comes to proper harvesting times, techniques, and storage. Make sure…
Expensive Fruit You Can Grow at Home
…fig variety to grow, and either plant in a container or outdoors. If you’re growing figs with the goal of a large harvest, try constricting the roots of the tree….
Growing the Herb with a Peppery Taste
…your garden, grow with the following plants: beans, melons, onions, garlic, and tomatoes. But avoid planting with cucumbers. When its time to harvest Savory, pick the leaves right before the…
Secretary Perdue Statement on Disaster and Trade-Related Assistance
…a revenue protection policy with a ‘harvest price option’, do I get the higher of the projected price or harvest price for my prevented planting payment? The Additional Supplemental Appropriations…
Start a Cut Flower Bed in Your Garden
…from weeds. Sunflowers, zinnias, cosmos, calendula, and marigold are some of the easiest to start from seeds. Just like your garden veggies, flowers have harvesting guidelines too. Read up on…
Farm City Newsday Thursday, 05-30-19
…involving worker housing that is moving fast through the system. Also, the Almond Board of California held their annual stewardship tour where officials see firsthand what the industry is doing…
Ways to Avoid Wasting Your Bountiful Harvest
Your garden produced to much for you to consume? Cathy Isom has some great ways to avoid wasting your bountiful harvest. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Ways…
USDA Reminds Producers of Approaching Marketing Assistance Loan Deadlines
…rates online at fsa.usda.gov. “Although many producers may have already marketed their 2018 crops, it’s not too soon to begin thinking about harvest and marketing decisions for your next crop,” Fordyce…
Cherries Not the Only Crop to Experience Storm Damage
…average. “Our fruits aren’t anywhere near ready to pick yet. It’s going to be maybe two or three weeks before we probably start harvest, it just depends,” said Hudson. “I…
CDFA Programs Get Funding Increase in ‘May Revise’ of California Budget
…been allocated to prepare regulations and implement Proposition 12 which will require significant changes to the housing requirements for veal calves, egg laying hens and pigs. The ‘May Revise’ nearly…
Industry Reaction to USDA Trade Relief Announcement
…straight harvest season in the middle of a trade war. “Ultimately, the best assistance for farmers and ranchers would be to resolve the trade disputes and open markets for California…
Tricolored Blackbirds Part of Dairy’s Conservation Story
…were conservation and good stewardship support for them to pause their harvest. Flocking tricolored blackbirds A tricolored blackbird nest A single tricolored blackbird Jonkman in the unharvested field NRCS said…
New Agricultural Video Series to Train the Next Generation Debuts
…covering the entire production chain,” said UC Cooperative Extension Cropping Systems Specialist Jeff Mitchell. “Everything from preparation, marketing, establishment of crops, in-season management, harvesting, post-harvest management, and quality.” The videos…
One of the Easiest Fruit Trees to Grow
If you are looking for something to add to your garden, or yard, Cathy Isom is letting you know about one of the easiest fruit trees to harvest and grow….