…Agriculture – Main Auditorium, 1220 N Sacramento, CA 95814. “Developing California’s priorities for the 2018 farm bill allows us to help frame the discussion as preparations begin at the federal…
Agri View: Animal Disease
…characterized by poor reproduction, gradual weight loss, oral and GI bleeding, renal failure and uremia, and high mortality. All color phases of mink may be infected, but light color phases…
Farm/Food Groups Urging Passage of Biotech Food Labeling Legislation
…worldwide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have all reaffirmed their long-standing recognition of the safety of the technology….
Stanford Study on Salinity of Deep Groundwater
From: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Salinity of deep groundwater in California: Water quantity, quality, and protection by Mary Kanga,1 and Robert B. Jacksona,b,c…
More Groundwater Found in Central Valley
…Protection Agency deems drinkable if treated – the number was one in three. Jackson and Kang stress that just because a company has hydraulically fractured or used some other chemical…
June Dairy Market Report
The June issue of the NMPF-DMI Dairy Market Report is now available online. It says that U.S.milk production was 1.2 percent higher in April than a year earlier,interrupting the pattern…
ASTA Supports GMO Labeling Agreement
ASTA Supports Roberts-Stabenow Agreement on GMO Labeling The American Seed Trade Association (ASTA) applauds Senate Agriculture Chairman Pat Roberts and Ranking Member Stabenow for reaching a common sense food-labeling agreement….
Farming from the Heart- Cal Poly Student’s Forestry Insight
…be a burn in California, which damages the industry. She says that although large and uncontrolled fires are detremental, there are environmental and financial advantages to doing controlled burns. Tori…
Senate Biotechnology Compromise
…before Vermont’s mandatory labeling law goes into effect on July 1. Although the House acted in a timely manner, I have just received the text of the this agreement and…
NMPF Pres. on Roberts-Stabenow Agreement on Food Biotech Legislation
…of 50 different states. It is now critical that the Senate vote on and approve the Roberts-Stabenow agreement as soon as possible next week, prior to July 1 when the…
USDA Announces Key Measures to Improve Pollinator Health
…possible to pollinators and that beekeepers understand how they can benefit from USDA’s conservation and safety net programs. For several years, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Natural Resources Conservation…
ADC Forms Farmer Advisory Board
…insurance agents, government officials, farm managers, input providers or anyone else the farmer chooses. Matt Bechdol, ADC’s interim executive director, said the ADC is entering a pilot phase and that…
Proposals Could Further Limit Water Flows
…against recent agreements on water use. “They had an agreement back in March with the Bureau of Reclamation on what flows were going to be allowed,” Wade says. “They are…
Western View: Reason for National Monuments
…The act states that it is intended for: “… the protection of objects of historic and scientific interest.” When those intentions are observed, we end up protecting land in a…
