…Emily McCartney (7th overall), Dillon Guillen, and Catalina Diaz leading the team. Other contestants included Kyle Yerrick and Breanna Marcelino. The Agronomy contest involves the study field crops and weeds…
Vilsack Announces $30 Million to Fight Citrus Disease
…funding that may develop long-terms solutions. The promising near-term tools and solutions are funded through the HLB Multiagency Coordination Group while the research projects are funded through the Specialty Crop…
West Coast Port Slowdowns Having Severe Economic Impact on California Almond Industry
…largest specialty crop export, reaching over $4 billion in 2013. The Almond Board is engaged in an extensive fact gathering effort to document the impact on Californias 6.500 almond growers…
California’s Diversity Reflected In Pesticide Outreach
…of Hmong farmers in the U.S., who grow specialty crops like daikon, long beans lemongrass and sugar cane. Michael Yang, the Small Farms and Specialty Crops Hmong Agricultural Assistant for…
USDA Designates 55 Counties in California as Primary Natural Disaster Areas
…the declaration to apply for loans to help cover part of their actual losses. FSA will consider each loan application on its own merits, taking into account the extent of…
Water Rights: Farmers Prepare For Possibility of New Curtailments
…some farmers fallowed rice ground last year “so we would have a little more water to go around,” he doesn’t have that option with a permanent crop such as walnuts….
Agri View: Heavy Hauling
Everett Griner talks about crop transportation being a coming problem in today’s Agri View. Heavy Hauling…
Iteris and F4F Agriculture Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Establish Formal Partnership
…enable agribusinesses to ingest specific, actionable, high-resolution weather, crop and soil information for data-driven farming. The ClearAg™ API platform takes field-specific weather, combines it with the science of soil and…
USDA Announces the Availability of $16 Million to Support Food Production
…in 2015 is to develop more sustainable, productive, and economically viable plant and animal production systems. This program will also develop regionally-adapted crop cultivars and livestock breeds that contribute to…
Pollinator Seeds Have Added Benefit
Free seeds available from Project Apis M help pollinators and have some added benefits for growers. Pollinator Seeds Have Added Benefit Project Apis M offers free ground cover seeds for…
Making Crop Insurance for California
A well-known company is making crop insurance valuable to growers by taking their input to the federal government. Making Crop Insurance for California Western Growers says they have had significant…
Fruit & Nut Review
DECEMBER CROP COMMENTS – CALIFORNIA The grape crop, which accounts for 88 percent of the 2014 United States utilized grape production, is down 12 percent from the previous year. The…
Farm Radio News/Talk Show Comes to Monterey County
…specialty crop, regional, and modern farming news reports by AgNet West Assistant Farm News Director Taylor Hillman; This Land of Ours, a consumer/ag feature reported daily by television and radio…
USDA Invests $18 Million to Train Beginning Farmers and Ranchers
…Crop Disaster Assistance Program for new producers by reducing the premiums on buy-up level coverage by 50 percent for new farmers and waiving their application fee. USDA announced this new…