Cal Poly Pomona College of Agriculture announces the opening of a new 5,040-square-foot research and insect production greenhouse to help control the Asian citrus psyllid. The greenhouse was planned in…
Agri View: Farmers Benefit from Oil Prices
…use of feedstocks for biofuels) means that production cost savings are likely to be offset by reduced sales revenues, leaving the average producer facing greater challenges in raising finance and…
Office of Farm to Fork Builds Bridges
…agriculture heritage and production. I am proud of the accomplishments of the Office of Farm to Fork over the last year and look forward to much success in the future!…
Mexican Ethanol Producers Set Sights on Sorghum
Ethanol producers from Mexico are considering the use of sorghum for production of the biobased fuel. The U.S. Grains Council recently hosted a trade team of Mexican ethanol producers in…
Overachieving Garden
…coming from our gardens, and frankly, those who do are people whom I envy. Many of us crop cultivators struggle at the beginning, working to yield a handful of tomatoes…
Agri View: Crop Losses
Everett Griner talks about crop losses due to weather in today’s Agri View. Crop Losses From: EarthSky Extreme weather lowers global crop yield By Benjamin D. Duval, Contributing writer for…
Tomato growers reduce acreage to match markets
…of this week, about 8 percent of the state’s crop has been harvested. After growers produced two years of record crops, tomato processors have scaled back contracted acres this year…
Crop Insurance Program Still Growing and Healthy
The man who runs the USDA’s Risk Management Agency says the crop insurance program is growing and is financially healthy. Gary Crawford has the story. Crop Insurance Program…
Strawberry Tool Tells Producers When to Treat
…in strawberry production. Researchers in Florida, which ranks second in strawberry production, have developed a web tool that is helping growers here in California. As a matter of fact, the…
Robot Aims to Automate Produce Handling
…You get all the benefits of speed, production, throughput and rate that you would get from an industrial robot, but now you have a soft hand that can handle all…
Lessons from Six California Soil Care Farmers
…California’s environment and crop production mix doesn’t lend itself to soil health improvements,” said Jeff Mitchell, UC Cooperative Extension agronomy specialist. A series of farm visits this summer in the…
Adapting Drone Technology for California Ag
…will see is called variable rate technology,” Hull says. “The basic idea is you fly over a big patch of corn or soybeans. You look at where the crop is…
Ag Labor and Border Security Require Balanced Approach
…American Farm Bureau Federation highlights those issues, but with political debate ramping up and no practical solutions on the horizon, farmers say important areas of U.S. food production are at…
Agri View: Bad Weather
…one of the key factors affecting prospects for crop production and commodity prices. In 1978 the World Board and the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration formed the Joint Agricultural Weather…