…$300 million to conduct monitoring and surveillance of animals that are susceptible to the COVID virus. Through the initiative, ARS, in partnership with APHIS, is conducting five research projects to…
Almond Update: Advancing Pest Management Practices
…to be about refining it, seeing if it could be made cheaper, and then moving it into the commercial space.” Pheromone developments have also been integral for managing navel orangeworm….
California Chill Report: Facilitating Bloom Synchronization to Boost Yields
…noted that the project will continue. As pistachios are an alternate bearing crop, there are considerations as to how that could impact production results in the research. “This year we’re…
Week in Review: Snowpack at 200% of Average & SWP Allocation Up to 30%
…for 11 rodenticide active ingredients will close on February 13. State Water Project contractors have not been allocated more than 30 percent since 2019 and it has been nearly 20…
California Chill Report: Helping Pistachio Yield in Low Chill Conditions
Research Director at the MARI Agricultural Research Institute, Masood Khezri has been working on a project related to bloom synchronization in pistachio orchards. Part of the multi-year trial has included…
SWP Allocation Increased to 30 Percent After Weeks of Storms
…of storage combined – State Water Project and Central Valley Project – at San Luis Reservoir,” Craddock explained. “We’re continuing to operate our pumping operations in the Delta where we…
California Chill Report: Working to Refine Chill Modeling
…points of focus in the research have been to try and answer two specific questions. The first aspect of the project considers the decline in fog and how that might…
Culver’s Thank You Farmers® Project Donations Surpass $4 Million
…the Thank You Farmers Project long into the future.” Culver’s efforts in the Thank You Farmers Project came to life in three main areas throughout 2022: Agriculture education: supporting the…
Week in Review: Simultaneous Drought & Flood Emergencies, More Funding for Sites Project
Even as California receives massive amounts of rainfall, rural communities are still experiencing drought impacts. The Sites Reservoir Project has recently received an additional $80 million through the Water Infrastructure…
Lawmakers Calling for Better California Water Management
…the maximum conservation of available surface water, which includes pumping at the southern Delta Central Valley Project and State Water Project pumping plants. Congressman Costa also highlights the dire need…
Almond Update: Cold Storage for Bees Becoming More Popular
…the bees have the ability to fly and spread diseases and things like that.” Several resources about cold storage of bee colonies are available from Project Apis m. Listen to…
Sites Reservoir Receives More Funding as California Experiences Substantial Rainstorms
The Sites Reservoir project has received additional funding support from the Bureau of Reclamation. Last week, the project received $80 million through the Water Infrastructure Improvements for the Nation Act…
World’s First Agriculture-Focused Satellite Launches
On Tuesday, January 3 at 9:56 a.m. ET, Falcon 9 launched Transporter-6, SpaceX’s sixth dedicated smallsat rideshare mission mission, from Space Launch Complex 40 at Cape Canaveral Space Force Station…
Spending Bill Brings New Funding for Citrus Industry Research
…national project,” CCM President and CEO Casey Creamer said in a news release. “We look forward to watching the growth of this program and its collaboration with the UC breeding…