…we are announcing today, we are also investing in long-term solutions to diseases that threaten the long-term survival of the citrus industry.” USDA’s HLB Multi-Agency Coordination Group funded fifteen projects…
USDA: Slow Snowpack Development for Much of the West
…to change. We’ll keep watching conditions and updating our forecasts as the year continues.” The NWCC, part of USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service, monitors conditions year-round and will continue to…
USDA Video: USDA Week in Review February 6
…This edition of USDA Week In Review includes wide open work spaces, the Farm Bill’s anniversary and the new budget proposal. For more information go to: www.usda.gov www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?navid=farmbill www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/usdahome?contentid=2015/02/0023.xml&contentidonly=true www.flickr.com/photos/usdagov…
West Coast Port Slowdowns Having Severe Economic Impact on California Almond Industry
…federal marketing order, as it seeks to educate key policy makers about the vast economic impact of the slowdown. The Almond Board has sent letters to USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack,…
Free Bird-Friendly Farming Workshops
Two workshops to support the Waterbird Habitat Enhancement Program administered by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. Join U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)…
California’s Three Largest Dairy Cooperatives Submit Proposal for California to Join the Federal Milk Marketing Order
…Dairy Farmers of America, Inc. (DFA) and Land O’Lakes, Inc. submitted the proposal this week. Under existing regulations, California dairy farmers operate under statewide milk pricing plans. The majority of…
California’s Diversity Reflected In Pesticide Outreach
…to provide.” Punjabi-American farmers grow Sutter County’s fruit, nuts Yuba City has one of the largest Punjabi-American communities in North America. Many are farmers, who grow various orchard crops including…
USDA Designates 55 Counties in California as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
…areas eligible for low interest emergency (EM) loans from USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA), provided eligibility requirements are met. Farmers in eligible counties have eight months from the date of…
Success in the Cafeteria-part 2
In part 2 of the 3-part series in the USDA’s efforts to help school cafeterias across the country reduce plate waste in school lunches Cathy Isom takes a look at…
NOW Traps Allow Longer Monitoring
…more use of a newer pheromone trap for navel orangeworm. Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor David Haviland suggest growers don’t replace the old egg traps, but use both of the traps…
National Agriculture Day: Poster and Poetry Contests Entries Being Accepted
The organizations Agri-Culture and the Santa Cruz County Farm Bureau are currently accepting entries for: Annual National Agriculture Day Poster Contest Open to Grades K–6 Annual National Agriculture Day Poetry…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…sure it is current, he added. Having worked at Montna Farms in Sutter County for 21 years, rice farmer Nicole Montna Van Vleck said she didn’t experience the state’s last…
UC Studies Outline Costs of Tomato Irrigation Systems
…tillage and from yield outcome. Each analysis is based upon a hypothetical farm operation using practices common to the region. Input and reviews were provided by growers, pest control advisers…
NOW Still Tops Pistachio Pest List
…of the 2015 Pistachio Day in Visalia was focused on monitoring and sampling for pests in orchards. Kern County Cooperative Extension Farm Advisor David Haviland says navel orangeworm still remains…