…agricultural health to ensure access to safe, plentiful, and nutritious food; increasing agricultural opportunities by supporting a competitive agricultural system; contributing to clean and abundant water by protecting and enhancing…
CFBF President Urges Farmers to Work Toward Change
…build reservoirs, roads and other infrastructure that allowed California to become the greatest agricultural region in the world. Now, he said, the struggle has focused on defending the resources farmers…
CDFA: December is Farm to Food Bank Month
…providing healthy and nutritious farm products to people who need it most. With California’s great diversity of farm products and our abundant agricultural bounty, giving back to local communities is…
Dairy Groups Detail Importance of Dairy Trade
…dairy sector and seeking further dialogue on ways the organizations can work with the incoming administration on trade policy. NMPF and USDEC said in their letter that expanded agricultural trade…
USDA Surveying Sheep Operations
Starting later this month, the Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (USDA/NASS) will measure sheep inventories and wool production during a nationwide survey. The American Sheep Industry Association is…
National Honey Board Members and Alternates Named
…Hull, of Battle Lake, Minn. is the alternate marketing cooperative member. Board members selected by the U.S. Secretary of Agriculture administer the program. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) provides oversight…
Cost Studies for Growing Plums and Raisins in SJV
…UC Agricultural Issues Center, which is part of UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources, and the UC Davis Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. For additional information or an…
Beet Curly Top Virus Report
…leafhopper and host plant vegetation surveys in the agricultural areas of the desert the week of November 14th. Areas surveyed included Blythe, Holtville, El Centro, and Calipatria. BLH activity was…
Dairy Exports to Increase by $500 Million in 2017
…USDA does expect dairy imports into America to rise $200 million in the coming year. The top three U.S. agricultural trading partners are China, Canada, and Mexico. However, trade is…
No GMO Wheat Found in Commercial Supplies
…APHIS for their work on the incident. The organizations credited effective communication between APHIS, USDA’s Foreign Agricultural Service, farmer organizations, the grain trade, and customers to keep things moving in…
Proposed Tax Regulation a Threat to Future Cattle Farms
…reduce the tax burden at death allowing agricultural operations to maintain family ownership from one generation of producers to the next. “Should the discounts be eliminated, a significant number of…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…minimum wage and agricultural overtime pay. “We are probably going to phase out crops that have to be hand-harvested if we aren’t going to get any mechanical harvesting to make…
Mediterranean Fruit Fly Quarantine Near Panorama City
…Agriculture (USDA), the Los Angeles County Agricultural Commissioner, and the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) are working collaboratively to address the issue. The quarantine area in Los Angeles…
Stink Bug Could Infest by the Tens of Thousands
…Sacramento, Southern California and Riverside. And we do know it’s in the Central Valley, but we just haven’t seen any of those large populations near any of our agricultural crops.”…