…available free online to extend the reach of all the valuable information shared at the symposium,” said Jeff Dahlberg, director of the UC Kearney Agricultural Research and Extension Center. “We’re…
Asian Citrus Psyllid Quarantines
…for both the insect and disease. There is no cure for HLB and once a tree becomes infected, the diseased tree will decline in health and produce bitter, misshaped fruit…
Weigh a Bee
…Cypress Semiconductor and Texas Instruments. Electrical engineers Anthony Troxell, Jeff Luu and Wael Yehdego, advised by Knoesen, began working on the project in fall quarter 2015, and mechanical engineers Lillian…
Agri View: Direct Marketing
…Education Marketing Strategies For Farmers and Ranchers From left: Jill, Jenna, James and Jeff Burkhart (Photo courtesy of Picket Fence Creamery) For 23 years, all the milk from Jeff and…
Asian Citrus Psyllid Pest Found in Monterey County
…both the insect and the disease. There is no cure once a tree becomes infected. The diseased tree will decline in health and produce bitter, misshapen fruit until it eventually…
More Overhead Irrigation in California’s Future
…farmers have recently been having with overhead irrigation systems,” said lead author Jeff Mitchell, UC Cooperative Extension specialist. “We’ve confirmed that overhead irrigation systems work in California. We also concluded…
Celtuce
…that the cook understand how to prepare them. (Many are bitter, for example, but to know which are supposed to be bitter and which should be blanched or braised or…
Agri View: Chocolate Pleasure
…For a region that harvests 70 percent of the world’s cocoa beans, the crop’s vulnerability to climate change is becoming an evermore bitter truth. To model how cocoa production would…
Agri View: Foreigner’s Farmland
Everett Griner talks about foreigner’s buying up U. S. farmland in today’s Agri View. Foreigner’s Farmland From: CNBC Saudi Arabia buying up farmland in US Southwest by Jeff Daniels, coordinating…
Farmers Check Impact of Spring Storms
…claim with crop insurance, which reimburses between 50 percent and 75 percent of the damage, depending on a grower’s coverage level. Jeff Yasui, director of the U.S. Department of Agriculture…
Factors Impacting Cost of Production
…Farmer Cooperatives, Washington, DC The Honorable Jeff M. Witte, Secretary/Director, New Mexico Department of Agriculture, Las Cruces, NM, on behalf of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture Ms….
National Grasslands
…builders pushed back the last frontier. The Homestead Act of 1862 brought almost six million settlers who replaced grass with crops more beneficial to their economic aspirations. Prolonged drought, bitter…
Bison Our National Mammal
…John Hoeven (R-ND), Sen. Martin Heinrich (D-NM), Rep. William Lacy Clay (D-MO), Rep. Jeff Fortenberry (R-NE), Rep. Kristi Noem (R-SD), and Rep. José Serrano (D-NY) championed the bill in Congress,…
Clean Water Crisis Threatens U.S.
…more lead problems are likely. The school district in Newark, N.J., recently replaced water fountains with bottled water after finding unacceptably high levels of lead in the tap water. Jeff…