…unfairly “picking winners and losers between regions and crops,” and “helping wealthy farms and foreign companies instead of small farms.” USDA has responded to the concerns, defending how the payment…
Attracting Wildlife to Your Garden
…winter habitat before you tidy it up in the spring. Growing climbing plants such as Ivy, provides shelter and cover for both birds and insects throughout the year. Other reliable…
Voices Of The Valley Podcast: Start-up Challenges and the Importance of Analyzing Data
…HarvestPort.com. Roi Adar, general manager of RootsTalk, provides an inside look into what it’s like being an agtech entrepreneur. He reveals how he identified which crops to target while forming…
Incubator Farm to Help Develop New Agronomic Strategies
…core, it’s really a research facility,” said Devin Clarke, Crop Manager with Permanent Crops for Yara North America. “What we’re looking to do here is implement long-term field-scale trials to…
Despite Kincade Fire, Winegrowers Push Through Harvest
…county Ag Commissioner and the Sheriff’s office, many growers were able to back get into their vineyards to harvest their remaining crops in areas that were safe. Allied Grape Growers…
Domestic Hemp Production Program Becoming Official
…other crops.” During a phone call with reporters, Under Secretary for Marketing and Regulatory Marketing and Regulatory Programs, Greg Ibach said that states that already have some form of regulation…
Orchard Recycling Getting Closer to Financial Assistance
…17, 2019, public meeting of the Environmental Farming Act Science Advisory Panel in San Luis Obispo. “This practice is timely with California’s increased acreage dedicated to orchard crops and will…
Stopping Weeds from Taking Over Your Garden
…there’s no space for the weeks to grow, they can’t take hold. Limit digging and tilling so you won’t disturb the soil. You can cover your garden with newspaper or…
Tips for Growing Baby Vegetables Successfully
…plantings means more leaf mass to cover the soil and keep it moist. Time your harvest. Think ahead to how you’ll be using those veggies and try to target your…
Great Reasons to Grow Baby Vegetables
…time difference for beets. But, if you have a 120 day growing season, you could get three or four rotations of baby crops instead of struggling to get two rounds…
Hemp Holds Value for Organic Growers
…your soil to make it available for that plant and a lot of that we can turn back under into the soil.” Hemp crops have expansive root systems which present…
Growing Your Own Baby Vegetables
…cases, such as baby vegetables that are grown in cool weather, they can even be sweeter than their older, more weathered versions would be. Most annual root crops can be…
How to Rid Your Garden of Potato Bugs
…potato beetles, in both adult and larval forms, chew the leaves on garden plants and can defoliate entire crops if you don’t get rid of them quickly. Potato bugs can…
2020 Enrollment for Agriculture Risk Coverage and Price Loss Coverage Programs Open
…the 2018 crop. Producers who had 2018 covered commodities enrolled in ARC-CO can visit www.fsa.usda.gov/arc-plc for payment rates applicable to their county and each covered commodity. For farms and covered commodities enrolled…