…Farm Safety during Agricultural Safety Awareness Week While National Farm Safety Week is recognized during fall harvest, in reality spring planting season is the most dangerous time of the year…
Agri View: Soil Care
…bountiful crops and forests, productive grazing lands, diverse wildlife, and beautiful landscapes. Soil does all this by performing five essential functions: Regulating water – Soil helps control where rain, snowmelt,…
Almond Board: Nitrogen Sampling
…plan each year, starting in 2015. A management plan takes into consideration the contribution of various sources of nitrogen other than fertilizer: nitrates in irrigation water, nitrogen in cover crops…
Getting Garden Ready
…common. Open the windows on mild days and close them before nightfall. My Riga greenhouse has automatic ventilators. This saves me from making 2 trips to the greenhouse every day….
Bus Stop Farmers Markets
…MARTA Market will be open one day a week again this year from spring through fall. In addition to fresh produce and two-for-one SNAP purchases, cooking demos, a weekly bike…
Wettest Months Finish Below Average
…stations monitored electronically by DWR was 170 percent of the two-month average, but October, November and February rainfall was far below normal. Snowfall since December 1 has mirrored that pattern….
EPA Moves to Cancel the Insecticide Flubendiamide
…soybeans, almonds, tobacco, peanuts, cotton, lettuce, alfalfa, tomatoes, watermelon, and bell peppers, with some crops having as many as 6 applications per year. Crops that have been properly treated with…
Agri View: Weather Damage Costly
…they still place an 80 percent chance on one happening by late fall. “It’s fairly confident, but it’s not a slam dunk,” Anthony Barnston, IRI’s chief forecaster, told Climate Central….
Asian Wasps Could Help Stink Bug Control
…“generalist predators” have been observed feeding on BMSB – such as lacewings, mantids, earwigs, lady beetles, assassin bugs, pirate bugs, big-eyed bugs and spiders. Field research has also found that…
Agri View: Food Prices
…the U.S. Department of Agriculture. “The estimates for the outlook will return to more normal pricing, but the stabilization of supply is likely to occur as we enter the fall…
U.S. Should Be Better Prepared For Pests, Diseases
…and the food supply,” said Acord. A blue ribbon panel last fall released a report on U.S. bio-defenses that highlighted the need for improvements in the system for protecting the…
World Pistachio Day
…was recognized as an ideal growing location for pistachios and the first crops were planted around 1930. Years of experimenting took place and the first commercial crop in 1976 produced…
USDA Invests $25 Million in High-Priority Watersheds to Improve Water Quality
…of water bodies within these priority watersheds. NRCS and partners work with producers and landowners to implement voluntary conservation practices, such as nutrient management, cover crops, conservation cropping systems, filter…
Agri View: Marijuana, a Hot Crop
…cannabis farmers are dousing their crops in rat poison. Unfortunately, it’s showing up in the tissues of animals vital to the ecosystem, like the fishers. The researchers say that that…