USDA Announces Program Helping Smaller Producers Reach New Markets The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) today announced the official launch of GroupGAP, a new certification program…
Record Growth in U.S. Organic Producers
$1 billion in USDA investments boost growing markets for organic products and local foods The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced a significant increase in the number of certified…
Pork Producers Support ‘CARB’ Recommendations
…It also pushed for funding U.S. Department of Agriculture efforts to conduct on-farm antibiotic-resistance surveillance. (USDA got no fiscal 2016 money for surveillance.) “For at least the past 10 years,…
Secretary Ross in Vietnam
…United States Agricultural Trade Association (WUSATA), a non-profit formed in 1980 by the 13 western state departments of agriculture as well as the territorial departments in Guam and Samoa. For…
Weather Research Could Help Water Management
…Water Management Department of Water Resources State Climatologist Michael Anderson says weather-predicting models and tools aren’t as effective for California because of the state’s weather variability. This can make predicting…
Farm City Newsday Podcast for April 4
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s Farm City Newsday, hosted by Sabrina Hill. To listen or subscribe [display_podcast] Subscribe in a reader…
Agri View: Feral Hog Efforts
…Rob Pavey Outdoors Editor One of the newest tools under development in the war against feral hogs involves a primary preservative used in bacon, according to the U.S. Agriculture Department….
Prospective Plantings for 2016
The USDA-NASS, Pacific Regional Field Office today released the forecasts of field crop plantings for 2016. These forecasts, of acreage planted and to be planted, are based on a survey…
Response to CVP Water Allocation Announcement
…simultaneously allowing the health of the Delta to rapidly decline. As people, communities and agriculture try to survive this disaster, we should not forget that these decisions are affecting the…
Water Supply Allocation Announced for CVP
…that will be available for delivery to CVP water users and reflects current reservoir storages, precipitation and snowpack in the Central Valley and Sierra Nevada. The California Department of Water…
Veterans Get “What’s Next?” Question Answered
…military installations throughout the U.S. For more information on USDA services and programs for veterans and military personnel, please visit www.usda.gov/veterans or contact your local USDA offices by visiting http://offices.usda.gov….
2016 Award Winners for Agriculture, Technology
California State Fair announces 2016 award winners for agriculture, technology The California State Fair has announced the recipients of its prestigious awards, including Agriculturalist of the Year. The State Fair…
Red-cedar’s Impact on Prairie Chickens
…Solutions report is available online. To learn more about technical and financial assistance available through NRCS, visit nrcs.usda.gov/GetStarted or your local USDA service center. As tree density increases, lesser prairie-chicken…
DWR April Snowpack Totals Report
…this year when the Department of Water Resources (DWR) conducted its media-oriented snow survey at Phillips Station in the Sierra Nevada east of Sacramento on March 30. The same is…