…crop insurance provides certainty that in the event of a loss a farmer will be indemnified based on a portion of the value of the crop or livestock. Under crop…
Crops Hold Onto Harmful Mutations That Reduce Productivity
…fixing these kinds of rare mutations, which could lead to improved crop yields, more efficient high-performing plants and being able to grow crops on less acreage,” said Karl Kremling, lead…
UCR Researchers Receive Grant to Improve Pollinator Health
…inadequate bee nutrition, pesticide exposure, and parasites. “Determining whether recommended pollinator-friendly practices are successfully improving bee health and crop pollination will have important outcomes for farm managers deciding whether to…
Final Grape Crush Up Slightly Over Last Season
…2016. Average prices for the 2017 crop by type were as follows: red wine grapes, $965.54, up 5.1 percent from 2016; white wine grapes, $587.73, down 1.8 percent from 2016;…
Agri View: Planting by Zodiac Signs
…to plant a crop. Now, you might call that superstition, but, it worked. I tried it one year and I had the most productive spring garden I had ever planted….
USDA Report Indicates Increased Corn Demand
The Department of Agriculture (USDA) has increased corn demand in it’s latest forecast for the 2017-18 crop year. The monthly World Agriculture Supply and Demand report increased exports of corn…
Bayer in Exclusive Talks With BASF to Sell Vegetable Seed Business
…ruling earlier, according to Dow Jones. Bayer had already agreed to sell selected crop-science businesses to BASF for $7.3 billion last October. This first deal covers Bayer’s LibertyLink technology for…
Agri View: Agriculture Weather
…farmers in the southeast heavily. The major damage was to the fruit and vegetable crops. But, other sectors of agriculture were also impacted. Few people are aware that almost half…
USDA Offers Renewal Options for Expiring Conservation Stewardship Contracts
…expiring contracts are due by April 13. Through CSP, agricultural producers and forest landowners earn payments for actively managing, maintaining, and expanding conservation activities like cover crops, ecologically-based pest management,…
USDA Helps Cotton Producers Maintain, Expand Domestic Market
…based on the 2016 cotton crop, will help to fill the safety net void until the seed cotton ARC/PLC program is implemented beginning with the 2018 crop year. American Cotton…
Bayer AgVocacy Forum Highlights Need for Better Engagement
…we bring ag groups together, we bring food groups together and others,” said Darren Wallis, Vice President of North America Communications for the Crop Science division of Bayer. “It’s really…
Agri View: Feral Hogs Hitting Hard
…will eat anything. They will root up the ground and destroy the land. They like golf courses just as well as they do crop land. It looks like poison is…
California Vegetables More Than Half of U.S. Total
…County. California produced over $850 million of the nation’s $926 million broccoli crop and more than half, $242 million, of the nation’s $401 million spinach crop. What a vegetable delight!…
Agri View: Technology Expanding
…of the world would be hungry. It is more than just driverless tractors. It is satellite guided planting systems, crop irrigation, plant disease, and insect control. Now, it is drones….