…Ours. Download Year of the Pansy Each year the National Garden Bureau selects one annual, one perennial, one bulb crop and one edible as their “Year of the” crops. This…
Winter Pruning Roses
…still dormant. Pruning too early in the winter – or even in the late Fall — is not recommended as it could result in vegetative growth that could be killed…
Agri View: Berry Problems
…see added acres of berry crops every year. Mostly blueberries but there are others. And with each crop new or generations old a problem that most people do not give…
Net Farm Income Expected to Dip further in 2017
…down by $4.5 billion (6.7 percent) based on anticipated lower prices. The forecast for crops is mostly unchanged, with wheat receipts changing most in absolute and percentage terms, falling $1.4…
NASA Report: San Joaquin Valley Land Continues to Sink
…subsidence bowls covering hundreds of square miles grew wider and deeper between spring 2015 and fall 2016. Subsidence also intensified at a third area, near Tranquillity in Fresno County, where…
U.S. Trends in Food Availability
…below dietary recommendations. What Did the Study Find? Although Americans have been consuming more food overall from all of the major food groups since 1970—even fruit and vegetables—many still fall…
Ag Producers’ Confidence Surges During January
…soybean futures prices would exceed or fall below given price points between January and fall 2017. The price points selected represented new futures contract lows or highs. For corn, essentially…
Agri View: Help for Bees
…than half of the non-farm crops are being grown today than we had in 2010. Non-farm pollinator crops. Well, that is decorative plants and blooming shrubs that we used to…
First Syngenta Viptera Corn Case Scheduled for June
…farmers in the United States who priced corn for sale after November 18th, 2013, were approved last fall as a major class in the ongoing lawsuit. DTN says many other…
Tomato Growers Evaluate Domestic, Export Markets
…It’s hurting a lot of commodities—corn, wheat— and that ripples all the way into California even if they’re really Midwest crops.” It doesn’t help that the processing-tomato market is in…
NMPF Urges Senate Ag Committee to Confirm Perdue as Ag Secretary
…months.” The letter noted that, as the former governor of a state that produces billions of dollars in food, fiber, specialty crops, nursery crops, dairy products, poultry and livestock each…
Snow Survey Shows Big Gains
…rainfall from lesser storms that drenched the state. All three regions DWR monitors continuously for their rainfall had recorded more by January 23 than their annual averages for the entire…
Robots and People Working Together to Save Water and Enhance Agriculture
…of Agriculture (USDA) is helping University of California researchers refine collaborative robotic technology that could change the way crops are maintained worldwide, saving millions of gallons of water each year…
Western View: Living History at a State Park
…fall months. The tours begin with an orientation at the Tehachapi Museum then a drive to the actual park. This is followed by a mildly strenuous three mile walking tour…