…is the only Federal program that enables a farmer to hire foreign field workers with experience to harvest fruit and vegetable crops on an effective schedule. And it isn’t working….
Smithfield Foods Donations Help Louisiana Flood Victims
…protein to the Greater Baton Rouge Food Bank delivered over the next two weeks. Currently, Smithfield’s refrigerated Helping Hungry Homes® truck is housing 40,000 pounds of protein and an additional…
Walnut Objective Measurement Report
…to harvest, which is expected to begin in early September. The 2016 Walnut O.M. Survey utilized a total of 729 blocks with two sample trees per block. Survey data indicated…
Fruits & Nuts Review
…completed by mid-month. The avocado harvest continued despite heat causing some fruit to drop. Fig growers continued preparations for harvest of a second crop. Wine grapes in the Central Valley…
Low Wheat Price Support Needed in New Farm Bill
Wheat prices have tumbled to the lowest point they’ve been at in the last decade, thanks in part to a successful harvest in the U.S. and strong harvest prospects overseas….
Pro Farmer Releases Crop Tour Results
…acre average. The soybean harvest estimate is 4.093 billion bushels with a 49.3 bushel per acre average yield. Corn: Ohio: 154 bu. per acre. We didn’t find as much corn…
Processing Tomato Production-2016
…percent below the May forecast. Drought conditions and hot weather lead to an early start to the harvest season. Harvest began in mid-June in the southern growing areas. The harvest…
Almond Board: State of the Almond Industry
…last harvest with the industry thinking the crop size was going to be lower than the objective estimate and pricing climbed even higher. As we got into fall, the conventional…
Algeria Returns to U.S. Corn
…tons (9.3 million bushels). It is one market being tracked by the U.S. Grains Council (USGC) as the new corn crop nears harvest and global market forces indicate potential for…
Comments Reopened on Import of Lemons from Chile
…required to be registered annually with the national plant protection organization (NPPO) of Chile and certified as a low pest prevalence production site; shipments are subject to post-harvest processing and…
APHIS Proposes Import of Fresh Persimmon Fruit
…be registered and approved by the National Plant Protection Organization of New Zealand; persimmons must meet requirements for orchard pest control, post-harvest safeguards, fruit culling, the ability to traceback shipments…
Citrus Growers, Packers Discuss Disease Threat
…in the field and treating fruit prior to harvest are all mitigation measures required in compliance agreements to move citrus fruit out of quarantine areas. But speakers said different levels…
Western View: Just What is Ag Big Data
…that value so they can harvest the rewards from providing big data. Western View Just what is your farm’s agricultural big data? It’s the accumulation of information of anything affecting…
Agri View: Farm Labor Shortage
…the foundation of U.S. farm labor. But few if any realize how many migrants it takes to plant, cultivate and harvest a crop. A majority of them are necessary to…