…helped jumpstart efforts to provide a reliable supply of advanced plant materials for biofuels. Through our Biomass Crop Assistance Program, for example, USDA is incentivizing more than 890 growers and…
USDA Increases Sugar Quantity, Access
…strong 2016 crop, but they continue to face uncertainty. Based on the projections in the May 10, 2016 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) report, USDA took this action…
Agri View: Chocolate Pleasure
Everett Griner talks about the drought affecting the cocoa crop in today’s Agri View. Chocolate Pleasure From: Undark.org Climate Change Could Pinch the World’s Chocolate Supply A hotter, drier climate…
California CCA Exam Signup Open
Crop advisers in California and Arizona have the opportunity to register for the August 5, 2016 CCA Exam until June 24, 2106. The exam will be given in Sacramento, Tulare,…
Climate Smart Agriculture and Forestry Results
…including, but not limited to, tillage management, cover crops, and grassed waterways. Through its Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP), NRCS will invest approximately $300 million in practices in Fiscal Year…
New Regulations for Groundwater Management
…Sustainability Agencies or Local Agencies. The regulations cover such provisions as technical and reporting standards, sustainable management criteria, monitoring, evaluation and assessment, and plan amendments. The proposed GSP regulations are…
Crop Production Report
…nut drop. Peaches – The California 2016 peach crop is forecast at 580,000 tons, up 4 percent from 2015. The California Freestone crop is forecast at 260 thousand tons, up…
No Changes for California Citrus
Mark Hudson, USDA/NASS, Washington DC, issued the May citrus crop forecast with no increases were reported for California due to the April numbers being carried over. Increases for Florida in…
Leaders Say Lemon Proposal ‘Defies Logic’
…crop safety. “This (move) follows on the heels of proposed rules allowing Chilean lemons into the country under less stringent protocols to avoid invasive pest and diseases. The Chilean rule…
People’s Garden
…green roof, wildlife and pollinator-friendly landscaping, and a bat house. An assortment of sustainable gardening practices are on display, including gardening with native plant species, crop rotation and cover cropping,…
Agri View: Weather Losses
…depend on changing global market conditions as well as responses to local climate stressors, including farmers adjusting planting patterns in response to altered crop yields and crop species, seed producers…
$10 Million in Green Energy Research
…genomic research on bioenergy feedstock crops, to development of biofuel conversion processes and costs/benefit estimates of renewable energy production. Through the Biomass Crop Assistance Program (BCAP), USDA is incentivizing more…
Certain Rains Increase Almond Bacterial Spot
…only discovered a few years ago in the Central Valley and some growers aren’t familiar with it. Pomology tree crop advisor David Doll says we haven’t seen a big problem…
Conservation Reserve Program Results
…and future use, new and underserved producer involvement, maximum grassland preservation, vegetative cover, pollinator habitat and various other environmental factors. Participants in CRP establish long-term, resource-conserving plant species, such as…