…acres and triggering the evacuation of 80,000 people. In the southeastern United States wildfires have burned more than 120,000 acres this fall. The southeast region of the Forest Service is…
Lone Star Ranch Named 2016 California Leopold Conservation Award® Recipient
…center dedicated to the advancement of a sustainable horticulture industry. Jeff Thomson is a fifth-generation famer near Bakersfield (Kern Co.) who grows a variety of annual vegetable crops, including watermelons,…
Rural Mainstreet Index Still Weak for November
…four bank CEOS indicated that their bank has made no lending changes due to falling farm income. More than one-fifth of livestock producers are expected to report negative cash flow…
Environmental Education Grants to Conservation Organizations in California
…Coastal Cleanup Day, dog park clean-ups, and fall community oak tree planting days. Since 1992, EPA has distributed between $2 million and $3.5 million in grant funding per year, for…
Bacterial Imbalances Can Mean Bad News for Honey Bees
…poorly understood but warrant study because of the implications for honey bee health and the insect’s importance as a chief pollinator of 100-plus flowering crops. Put another way, consumers owe…
Safer, More Effective Pest Management
…early and protect crops. Washington State University will develop integrated pest management strategies for the rapidly expanding U.S. hops industry. NIFA’s CPPM and IPM investments are made through several programs….
Agri View: Pumpkins
…retail stores buy up half of the crop to put up fall exhibits. They are just there for people to see. And when the season passes, they go into the…
Ranchers see Better Pastures, Tough Markets
A series of storms this fall has promoted healthy grass growth on the range for grazing cattle, but improved feed conditions come as cattle prices remain in a slump and…
Global Food Prices Continue to Rise
…year’s pace. Meanwhile, sowing of summer 2017 cereal crops is underway in southern hemisphere countries, and conducive weather conditions are leading to expansion in South America. The maize area planted…
EPA Approves Some Dicamba-Based Herbicides
…which is also a glyphosate and dicamba blend. Farmers have been using dicamba for years to kill weeds before they plant crops. Up until this week, farmers haven’t been able…
Incentives to Grow the Bioeconomy and Improve Forest Health
…to farmers and ranchers who establish and maintain new crops of biomass for energy or biobased products; additional information on the resumption of those funds will be announced at a…
Growing Quality Tomatoes with Half the Nitrogen and a Third Less Water
…than 20 years ago, when he was an employee of Sano Farms in Firebaugh, Calif., Sanchez asked his boss if he could experiment with cover crops (crops that keep cropland…
Big Increases for Corn, Cotton and Rice
…forecast is at 1.11 million tons, up 2 percent from the 2015 crop. Potatoes – Fall potato harvested acreage in California is estimated at 7.9 thousand and the yield forecast…
Peterson Named U.S. Wheat Associates President in 2017
…Peterson At their fall meeting Nov. 5, 2016, in Denver, CO, the U.S. Wheat Associates (USW) Board of Directors unanimously selected Vince Peterson as the next President of the organization…