…economic leaders are learning about California agriculture and working on ways to help rebuild their country. They visited Salinas, where they toured the Salinas High School farm and learned about…
USDA Continues Farm Bill Implementation with Provisions to Help Farmers Manage Risk
…support for beginning farmers that will make crop insurance more affordable and provide greater support when new farmers experience substantial losses. These announcements build on other recent USDA efforts to…
USDA Makes $5 Million in Farm Bill Support for National Clean Plant Network Available
…is comprised of representatives from USDA APHIS along with representatives from USDA’s Agricultural Research Service and National Institute of Food and Agriculture, and members of the National Plant Board, recommended…
USDA Video: This Week @ USDA June 27
…Party Food Safety Tips – USDA launches a website to help new and beginning farmers – Providing children nutritious meals during the summer For more information: http://www.usda.gov/wps/portal/usda/u… http://www.usda.gov/newfarmers http://www.fsis.usda.gov http://www.fns.usda.gov…
CHP Ag Vehicle Inspections for Yuba-Sutter Farmers and Ranchers
Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau Members On Thursday, July 3rd, a no-tickets, no-fines inspection for Yuba-Sutter farmers and ranchers by California Highway Patrol and the Yuba-Sutter Farm Bureau will be held. This…
USDA and USTR Name New Members to Agricultural Trade Advisory Committees
…period of four years. More information is available at www.fas.usda.gov/topics/trade-policy/trade-advisory-committees. Questions may be directed to USDA Trade Advisory Committee staff at 202-720-6219 or via email to ATACs@fas.usda.gov. Newly appointed members…
AgNeTVideo: Val Dolcini on Farm Bill Programs
Val Dolcini, California State Executive Director, Farm Service Agency, on USDA meetings to get information to farmers….
AgNeTVideo: Curtis Tarver, NRCS
Curtis Tarver, Assistant State Conservationist with the Natural Resource Conservation Service discusses USDA meetings to help farmers with the farm bill….
AgNeTVideo: Rich Brassfield, Rural Development
Rich Brassfield, State Environmental Coordinator, Rural Development, USDA on farm bill programs and emergency needs in rural communities….
Cap-and-Trade Program Topic of Meeting
…Karen Ross. “Not only are farmers providing food to local and global markets, they are also providing on-farm benefits that enhance our environment and help mitigate the impacts of climate…
California Sweet Cherry Production Down 63 Percent
The USDA-NASS, Pacific Regional Office has released the cherry production forecast for 2014. The latest survey, which was conducted during the first two weeks of June, had the following results….
Speak Up Against Water Act Proposal
…The California Farm Bureau is asking farmers and ranchers to express how the clarification on the Clean Water Act will affect their operations. Monterey County Farm Bureau Executive Director Norm…
Pacific Region Field Crop Review
…the previous year. United States Farm Labor for April There were 688,000 workers hired directly by farm operators on the Nation’s farms and ranches during the week of April 6-12,…
Water Act Proposal Costs Time and Money
County farm bureaus around the state are getting the word out to farmers and ranchers about how the redefinition of the Clean Water Act will affect work. AgNet West’s Taylor…