…will significantly limit releases from Shasta Reservoir through the summer and into fall, costing the Central Valley Project (CVP) approximately 400,000 acre-feet of water. The letter can be viewed in…
Signup for Cotton Producers Starts June 20
…40 percent of the average ginning cost for each production region. With the pressing need to provide assistance ahead of the 2016 ginning season this fall, USDA will ensure the…
New ‘Homegrown’ Blog
…workload and challenges producers face, from spring planting through the fall harvest. In the opening Homegrown entry, live on the committee’s website, we meet Noah Hultgren, a fourth generation farmer…
Making Growing Tamarixia a Common Practice
…perhaps everyone can grow there own tamarixia,” Smith says. “It’s not just raising tamarixia, it will also look at the engineering part of collecting the bug. We will be looking…
NMPF Board Adopts Resolution
…“There is no difference in milk or meat from cows that have consumed biotech crops, and that’s why any federal labeling disclosure needs to ensure the common-sense treatment of animal…
Bats and Agriculture
…Economic Value of Bats Groups of sleeping bats in cave Bats eat bugs, which is not only helpful for keeping mosquitoes and another annoying insects at bay for us humans…
Plant Health and Resilience Research
…Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack. “Research into growing more resilient, stress tolerant crops that use water and nutrients more efficiently will offer farmers new tools to produce crops sustainably, and will…
Agri View: Jackfruit
…its size, and resistance to pests and drought. And its nutritional credentials are also impressive: researchers have suggested it could replace wheat, corn and other staple crops that may come…
Global Grain Glut to Continue with Second-Biggest Crop on Record
…be nine million metric tons more than forecasted in April as wheat crops improve in the European Union, the United States and Russia. Bloomberg reports the International Grains Council expects…
Drought Causing More Losses to California Farmers
…to 350,000 acres this year. The report says crops that yield the highest returns on investment, like permanent plantings of tree crops and vines, should be impacted the least. At…
California Farmers Count Every Drop
…the nation’s fresh produce. Groundwater has helped compensate for California’s lack of rainfall, but groundwater overdraft cannot be continued indefinitely. California farmers have responded to the drought by fallowing land;…
Many Still Pondering Low Water Allocations
…am out on the west side,” Doll says. “We see ground that is laid fallow that could be in vegetable crops; we see orchards removed that maybe could have survived…
Agri View: Growing for Future Population
…carbon dioxide from the cutting of rain forests to grow crops or raise livestock. Farming is the thirstiest user of our precious water supplies and a major polluter, as runoff…
USDA Unveils New Improvement to Streamline Crop Reporting
…exploring adding more crops. Producers must still visit both locations to validate and sign acreage reports, complete maps or provide program-specific information. The common data from the first-filed acreage report…