…the same time, the report expects a significant reduction in acreage for field crops that require significant amounts of water, including corn, wheat, cotton and alfalfa. However, despite a projected…
EPA, Army Corps of Engineers Violate Law, Farm Bureau Tells Congress
…Corps has issued menacing letters to farmers who have changed from alfalfa hay farming to cattle grazing and back, despite the absence of any law to support their objections. The…
Fighting Drought With Soil
…row crops (tomatoes, alfalfa, wheat), farming practices (carbon inputs and rotations) and irrigation methods (furrow and flood, microirrigation). Samantha Ying, an assistant professor of environmental sciences at UC Riverside. Information…
Agri View: Foreigner’s Farmland
…seeing red. Saudi Arabia grows alfalfa hay in both states for shipment back to its domestic dairy herds. In another real-life example of the world’s interconnected economy, the Saudis increasingly…
Almond Tree Increase Brings Questions and Benefits
…growth over the last 10 to 15 years has replaced both perennial and annual crops. This includes cotton, vineyards, non-irrigated grasslands, alfalfa, grain and hay crops, tomatoes, corn, mixed field…
Milk Production to Increase Outside CA
…or pistachios and net $4,000-$5,000 an acre and stop growing alfalfa and silage.” Gallagher says a lot of those growers knew then that expansion meant leaving the state and the…
LBAM Quarantine Change
…berries (blackberry, blueberry, boysenberry, and raspberry), corn, pepper, tomato, pumpkin, beans, cabbage, carrot, alfalfa, rose, camellia, pittosporum, jasmine, chrysanthemum, clover, lupine and plantain. Host List Life Cycle and Damage Development…
Almond Groundwater Recharge Video
…the recharge project before, that’s looking to flood agriculture land with stormwater runoff during winter months. UC Davis assistant professor Helen Dahlke says they have seen good results from alfalfa…
How is Climate Change Affecting Agriculture?
Of 12 crops examined in Yolo County, walnuts are most vulnerable, while processing tomatoes and alfalfa acreage may increase due to warmer winters. In an effort to forecast how climate…
Agri View: Bee Gone
…this spring with eco-friendly crops like alfalfa and clover to develop healthier habitats for increasing the national bee population. Farmers and ranchers only had until March 21st, 2014 to sign…
Agri View: Food Protection
…alfalfa sprouts. Use a food thermometer to make sure that ground beef has reached a safe internal temperature of 160° F. Wash hands before preparing food, after diapering infants, and…
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: China Relations
…a major buyer of sorghum and alfalfa. Imported breeding animals and poultry are the foundation of a livestock sector that converts feed to meat more efficiently than in the past….
World Ag Expo to Feature Harden, Ross, and Kinoshita on Panel
…up on her family’s farm in Nebraska, where they raised cattle and grew alfalfa, soybeans and wheat. Sabrina Hill Sabrina Hill is the Farm News Director for AgNet West Radio…