…recognize that the quarantines and movement controls are having a significant impact on producers, especially those that planned on fall sales of their animals. The CFIA is bringing in additional…
Agri View: Bees and Honey
…transported to California every year to pollinate tree nuts. They are also going to New York to pollinate apples. To Maine to pollinate blueberries and Massachusetts for cranberry crops. And…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…armed with knowledge and tools to make their crops and livestock more resilient to disease while keeping costs low for farmers so they can continue doing what they do best….
Beet Curly Top Virus Update
…remained very low throughout the fall. Counts typically increase as fallow fields are disked and grazed, however, BLH populations did not increase and were still low and scattered by the…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…issues,” Keck said. Dates represented nearly $41 million worth of crops in Riverside County alone last year, according to the county agricultural commissioner’s report. Keck said that the response to…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
…of CRP Grasslands is to minimize conversion of grasslands either to row crops or to non-agricultural uses. Participants can receive annual payments of up to 75 percent of the grazing…
Agri View: Farm Progress
…practical on any acre of land and time is calculated in minutes. Corn is an example in this case. Other grain crops kept pace with corn. In fact all crops…
Feed Wheat Demand Could Ease Storage Crunch
Grain handlers are anticipating an uptick in orders for feed wheat, which should allow them to move excess wheat inventories as farmers bring in a record fall harvest. A new…
New York Times Claims GM Crops Offer No Benefit
A study by the New York Times claims genetically modified crops offer no significant yield benefit and lead to increased herbicide use. An article published over the weekend by the…
Enrollment Period for Safety Net Coverage in 2017
…the 2017 crop should crop prices or farm revenues fall below the historical price or revenue benchmarks established by the program. Producers who made their elections in 2015 must still…
Changing Organization and Well-Being of Midsize Farms
…also increased dramatically, driven by rapid appreciation in farmland values over the latter half of this period. In 2014, production on midsize farms that specialized in dairy, high-value crops, or…
World Wildlife Numbers Down Since 1970
…was down 58 percent from 1970 to 2012 and would fall 67 percent by 2020 on current trends, according to the World Wildlife Fund report. The index tracks about 14,200…
Agri View: Land facts
…crops. It is pasture land. It is a well-established that the biggest crops are corn, wheat and soybeans. Next is rice and cotton. Now here are some other interesting land…
Future of Our Agricultural Community
…Kristin Fernandez and Hannah Garrett. Kristen, a senior at Cal Poly, San Luis Obispo, is studying Agricultural and Plant Sciences with a concentration in Fruit and Crop Science. This fall,…