…base of the Tehachapi Mountains. What began nearly 80 years ago with a single potato crop has grown into a diverse farm producing citrus, potatoes, peppers, carrots and more across…
Cannon Michael Highlights Farming Challenges; USDA’s Luke Lindberg Talks Trade Gains
…Los Banos and Merced, producing a wide range of crops including tomatoes, melons, cotton, carrots, garlic, onions, almonds, pistachios, and specialty herbs. While diversification has helped the company remain competitive,…
Six Generations of Farming: Cannon Michael on Water, Innovation, and the Future of California Agriculture
…cotton. Since then, he has led a major diversification effort. Today the farm grows: Processing and fresh market tomatoes Carrots, garlic, and onions in winter crop rotations Watermelons, cantaloupes, and…
Cannon Michael Warns West Side Farmers Face Major Challenges with 15% Water Allocation
…melons, cotton, onions, garlic, carrots, pistachios, almonds, and herbs, along with managing hundreds of acres of wetland habitat along the Pacific Flyway. Despite the operation’s scale and diversification, water uncertainty…
Verdant Robotics: Revolutionizing Farming with Precision AI and Automation
…per year in each hemisphere. This led to the development of Verdant Robotics’ “aim and apply” technology, which can now work across more than three dozen crops, including organic carrots…
Don Cameron: California Ag Leadership & Challenges
…his own smaller farm growing almonds, walnuts, tomatoes, carrots, and corn. With about 65 full-time employees, his leadership reflects both administrative vision and boots-on-the-ground farming experience. Don Cameron: Leading California…
IFPA Pushes Produce for Better U.S. Health Policy
…copays, there were carrots,” the campaign delivers a bold message to policymakers: you can’t make America healthy again without fruits and vegetables. Nutrition Is Prevention IFPA CEO Cathy Burns emphasized…
Wade Kirschenman on Grapes, Potatoes & Policy
…Wade Kirschenman Kirschenman Enterprises “We’ve got probably 12 different crops that we’re growing right now,” said Wade. That includes red, white, and yellow potatoes, table grapes, watermelons, carrots, cannery tomatoes,…
AgNet News Hour Wednesday, 05-14-25
…the 2023, crop year based on cash receipts; number one is dairy products. Number two, grapes, followed by cattle and calves, lettuce, almonds, pistachios, strawberries, tomatoes, carrots and broilers In…
2024 Vegetable Production Report Reveals Significant Shifts
…modest increases. Changes in planted areas influenced these trends, with reductions in head lettuce, romaine lettuce, and onions, and increases in squash and sweet potatoes. Market values fluctuated, with carrots…
E. Coli Outbreak Linked to Recalled Organic Carrots
…of recalled carrots and sanitize any surfaces they contacted. Recalled baby organic carrots have best-if-used-by dates from September 11 to November 12, 2024, while recalled whole organic carrots do not…
FFAR Grant to Support Carrot Research at UC Davis
…with the best traits. Once they identify the most promising wild carrots, they will cross breed them with cultivated carrots to introduce these beneficial traits into commercial varieties. The team’s…
Potential of Biofungicides in Combating Disease Pressure in Organic Carrots
…dark lesions on the leaves and petioles and can weaken the tops of carrots, ultimately impacting yield. UCCE Vegetable Crops Farm Advisor in Kern County, Jaspreet Sidhu said that two…
DPR Confirms Another Reduction in Pesticide Use in 2021
…interest.” Alfalfa, carrots, cotton, rice, walnuts, pistachios, processing tomatoes, and peach and nectarines are also in that category. Collectively, commodities of interest represent 72 percent of the total amount of…