At their recent regular board meeting, the Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau Board of Directors voted to support a proposed Sutter County ordinance that would restrict marijuana cultivation. The ordinance would define…
Fall Citrus Meeting
…It kicks off with a presentation by Dr. Mark Hoddle of the University of California Riverside on the biological control of Asian citrus psyllid. Following that is a presentation on…
California Crop Update
Sabrina Hill has the crop update for the last week of September. Click to Open or Download Audio Report…
Almond Board: Almond Processing and Food Safety
Food safety is important to the Almond Board of California and almond growers. Sabrina Hill has more on how the Almond Board recently gave Food and Drug Administration representatives a…
2013 Specialty Crop Block Grants
USDA issued its 2013 Specialty Crop Block Grant awards to help fruit, vegetable, and horticultural producers. Rod Bain has the story. Click to Open or Download Audio Report California was…
Citrus Crop Forecast Live Webcast October 11
…air this year for California growers via www.AgNetWest.com, a radio network begun by a partnership involving AgNet Media principals in California during the summer of 2012. Southeast AgNet founder and…
California Leads Nation in Specialty Crop Funding
The United States Department of Agriculture announced funding today for the 2013 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP). Sabrina Hill has more. Click to Open or Download Audio Report California…
California Ag Headlines for September 25
…and internet sensations PSY, Honey Badger and Keyboard Cat. Wonderful Pistachios are grown in Lost Hills, California and packaged by Paramount Farms, which is headquartered in Los Angeles. To see…
ACP Update: New Psyllid in Exeter, Quarantines Expanded
…will decline in health until it dies. HLB has shown up just once in California – last year on a single residential property in Hacienda Heights of Los Angeles County….
New ACP Found Near Tulare County Town of Exeter
…was confirmed by the California Department of Agriculture (CDFA). Maps and current information are available on the Agricultural Commissioner’s website by visiting: http://agcomm.co.tulare.ca.us/default/. CDFA has already begun to survey the…
ACP Quarantine Expansion in Tulare and Kern Counties
…and the disease. There is no cure once a tree becomes infected. The diseased tree will decline in health until it dies. HLB has been detected just once in California…
California Agriculture Headlines for September 24
Today’s California agriculture headlines include information on a presentation on spinach in the Salinas Valley, Australia welcoming more California fruit, a field day for cotton growers, and a meeting for…
Water Meetings Scheduled
The Central Valley Regional Water Quality Control Board has several public meetings coming up next month, to allow the public a chance to discuss the development of a Central Valley…
Almond Board: Research a Focus of Almond Board Conference
…the research projects. Listen to the above audio report for his comments. For more on the Almond Conference, click here. For more on the Almond Board of California, click here….