The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA), the United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) and the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner’s office have eradicated an Oriental fruit fly (OFF)…
USDA Investing Millions in Wildfire Mitigation and Water Quality Projects
…at-risk species. Project locations include the Los Angeles County area, the front country of the Sierra National Forest east of the San Francisco Bay metro area, and Trinity County near…
Avocado Lace Bug Increasing Presence in California
…Los Angeles County and areas to the south. There has been some suspicious looking damage to the north that is currently being investigated, but the bug’s presence has not been…
USDA Issues Permit for Santa’s Reindeer
…over any U.S. border port. “It’s the season of giving and joy. Here at USDA we don’t want anything to delay these very important reindeer at our borders,” said Secretary…
Medfly Quarantine in San Mateo County
…meters of the detection sites are also being treated with an organic formulation of Spinosad. The sterile male Medflies are being provided by the sterile insect rearing facility in Los…
Chowchilla Dairy Farmer Named 2017 Conservation Agriculture Farmer Innovator
…the award Oct. 13 at the annual meeting of the San Joaquin Valley Resource Conservation Districts held at the Wool Growers’ Restaurant in Los Banos. In 2005, the University of…
NIFA Funds Food Safety and Nutrition to Promote Safe Food Supply
…University, Blacksburg, Virginia, $505,587 AFRI Foundational Program: Improving Food Quality California State University, Los Angeles, California, $149,998 University of Connecticut, Storrs, Connecticut, $149,801 University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida, $404,435 Purdue…
New Senate Hold on Ag Trade Nominee
…protecting U.S. farmers from cheaper Mexican imports. Growers in the southeastern U.S. support the proposal. Flake argues that the move would raise the cost of production, reduce the selection of…
USDA Aims to Improve Food and Nutrition Education for Low-Income Communities
…Projects Sitka Tribe of Alaska, Sitka, Alaska, $69,976 Uncommon Good, Claremont, California, $400,000 Community Services Unlimited Inc., Los Angeles, California, $400,000 Project Worthmore, Aurora, Colorado, $400,000 Re:Vision International, Denver, Colorado,…
More HLB Discoveries in Southern California
The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced another 33 discoveries of Huanglongbing (HLB) disease have been made in the Los Angeles area last week. Part of that total…
Medfly Quarantine Affects Solano Farms
…in the Los Angeles Basin prompted CDFA to inaugurate a Mediterranean Fruit Fly Preventive Release Program in 1996. The program conducts ongoing releases of sterile male Medflies in portions of…
The Western View: Puerto Rico
…takes about 5 days for an ocean-going vessel to sail from an American port to Puerto Rico, but it needs a port to offload supplies and trucks to get them…
CDFA Teams-Up With California Conservation Corps on Mediterranean Fruit Fly Project
An ongoing Mediterranean fruit fly quarantine in the Sun Valley section of Los Angeles is requiring fruit removal in the central zone of infestation, an area with more than 1,200…
Medfly Quarantine Issued in Los Angeles County
The northern Los Angeles County neighborhood of Sun Valley has been placed under quarantine after a Mediterranean fruit fly (Medfly) infestation was detected. The 89-square mile quarantine was issued after…