…into the kernel fill phase next. Overall, hull split sprays have begun on a wider basis, with more applications anticipated. Blueberry harvest had slowed. Avocado harvest was ongoing. Fig growers…
Program Preserves Ag Land for Climate Benefits
In Its Second Year, Cap-and-Trade Funded SALC Program Commits $37.4 Million to Shield Agricultural Land from Development Twenty California properties may be permanently set aside for agriculture thanks to a…
Multi-Party Water Exchange Will Benefit Donner Lake
Donner Lake Will Benefit from First Multi-Party Water Exchange under Truckee River Operating Agreement The Truckee River Operating Agreement (TROA) implemented in December 2015 provides new mechanisms for federal, states…
House says ‘No Reason’ to Hold TPP Vote
…negotiated a deal that “cost them dozens of votes in Congress.” He called for the President to renegotiate some components of the trade agreement, including some agriculture and labor provisions….
Agri View: Politics and Cuban Trade
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The People’s Department: A New Era for Civil Rights at USDA
…a stronger, more inclusive path for our employees and the communities we serve. While there’s still much to accomplish, we’ve made significant progress by addressing the following goals: 1.Correcting Past…
Grower Campaign to Help Market Olives
…new form of celebrity, brands and commodity organizations are going straight to the source to inspire both consumer and trade communications. The California Olive Committee (COC) is now taking this…
Almond Board: Almond Alliance of California is Official
…of California, is the only trade association fully dedicated to advocating and protecting our members’ investment in the almond industry. So we have a new focus so we are not…
Governors Strongly Support TPP
…U.S. Trade Representative Michael Froman was in Iowa for the meeting as the Administration’s top person trying to sell the agreement to a skeptical Congress. He said the agreement is…
Cattlemen’s Association Disappointed in Brazil Announcement
…domestic herds is at stake as Brazil continues to have problems with foot-and-mouth disease, along with continued bad-faith acts in the international trade community. The American public will also be…
CFBF Encourages Overtime Bill Action
Take Action to Stop AB 1066 Legislators returned to Sacramento on August 1 for their last month of the legislative session. Just prior to the summer recess Assembly-member Lorena Gonzalez…
Specialty Crop Research and Extension Investments
…agriculture and trade associations that partner with USDA address challenges at the national and local levels to help sustain all parts of America’s food and agriculture system, whether the farms…
S&W Seed Company Signs First U.S. Sorghum License Agreement
…agreement in the United States, S&W has licensing agreements with different partners to provide its grain sorghum and forage sorghum genetics throughout the world, including Australia, parts of South America,…
Dockers Union Contract Negotiations
…– retroactive to July 1, 2014 – after protracted labor talks and a nearly four-month work slowdown that harmed U.S. exporters. The U.S. meat and poultry sectors lost an estimated…