…to characterize both shallow and deep groundwater sources in eight California counties. The researchers concluded that when deeper sources of groundwater are factored in, the amount of usable groundwater in…
Snowpack Runoff Forecasts Drop Significantly
…we’re paying a debt to the groundwater and soil moisture,” Jones says. “We’ve had four, very dry prior years, so even if we get 100 percent of precipitation, we will…
Senate Biotechnology Compromise
…and innovation, and end the patchwork of state laws threatening interstate commerce. Unfortunately, due to Senator Stabenow dragging this process out for months, Congress will not be able to act…
NMPF Pres. on Roberts-Stabenow Agreement on Food Biotech Legislation
…policy on this issue. Following those visits, the NMPF board adopted a resolution calling on Congress to act quickly to provide consumers across the country clear and consistent information on…
Agricultural Imagery and Technology
Rep. Frank Lucas (R-OK), Acting Chairman of the House Agriculture Committee’s Subcommittee on General Farm Commodities and Risk Management, held a hearing to educate members about innovations in agricultural imagery…
ADC Forms Farmer Advisory Board
…advisory board. The advisory board, which currently consists of 10 men and women, will help guide ADC as it develops a data management repository to house agricultural information. “The full…
Western View: Reason for National Monuments
…the Sierra Club. It’s to preserve places that are important to all Americans. The Antiquities act of 1906 gives the President the right to create National Monuments in order to…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…that inspection, EPA asserted that Snowden Enterprises had several violations of the Federal Insecticide, Fungicide, and Rodenticide Act (FIFRA), which regulates the safe distribution, sale and use of pesticides in…
Agri View: GMO Law
…The Grocery Manufacturers Association immediately filed an appeal that is currently pending. Read more. From: Congress.gov H.R.1599 – Safe and Accurate Food Labeling Act of 2015 114th Congress (2015-2016) Safe…
HLB-Identified Trees Tested, Most Negative
…HLB. The CPDPP says at this point, the best way to prevent the spread of HLB is to participate in Asian citrus psyllid management programs which include area wide treatments….
Agri View: Troubled Ocean Waters
…and preserve the marine environment. The United States ratified the London Convention in 1975 and implements the Convention’s requirements through the Marine Protection, Research, and Sanctuaries Act. Ocean Dumping Management…
Pacific Region Fruit and Nut Review
…harvested and peach orchards were being thinned. Pesticide sprays on almond and pistachio orchards continued. Canopy management including shoot separation, shoot thinning, and leaf removal was completed, in order to…
NACD Responds to Approval of EPA Spending Bills
…from forest management accounts to pay for wildfire suppression on a yearly basis because their fire suppression budgets aren’t enough to cover the actual costs of putting out the flames….
Farming from the Heart- Erin Gorter from Cal Poly SLO
…the biggest issues educators see right now, but one teacher educator says there is a solution; we just need to act on it. I spoke about this issue with Erin…