The California Grape Acreage Report, 2015 Crop detailed data is now available online. Data is available for download in both PDF and Excel formats by table or as a PDF…
Agri View: Drone On
…drones will drastically transform U.S. agriculture, in one chart Robots are beginning to transform farming in the U.S., from autonomous mowing and plowing to so-called precision agriculture, a data-based approach…
California Grape Acreage Report
…the estimated grape acreage, the grape acreage data base was compared with data provided from the pesticide application data maintained by County Agricultural Commissioners and the Department of Pesticide Regulation….
Exemption Granted for PSHB Management
…new tool to combat PSHB. The Commission has been working for more than a year with researchers at the University of California, Riverside to develop the required efficacy data and…
Agri View: SNAP Fraud
…data available). The federal government is aggressively fighting SNAP trafficking. USDA and the Obama administration are actively working on behalf of American taxpayers to protect the federal investment in the…
Near Normal Snowpack in Most of the West
…conditions, greatly enhancing data collection and forecast accuracy. All of the data is free and available online. Producers, businesses and state and federal agencies use forecasts in many ways. “Earlier…
Grants to Help Ag Producers Increase Value of Their Products
…billion in investments to over 40,000 local and regional food businesses and infrastructure projects since between 2009. Industry data estimates that U.S. local food sales totaled at least $12 billion…
Almond Board: Nitrogen and ILRP
…in irrigation water, cover crops, compost and other sources, as well as with data from leaf sampling. All of this data is then used to get a total nitrogen fertilizer…
Agri View: 2016 Farm Outlook
…affect fruit/nut, vegetable cotton, and rice production going forward (for more information, see the ERS drought page). See data on value of crop production and crop cash receipts. Chart data…
Agri View: El Niño
…a return to El Niño happen to use the exact same data set for the initial conditions. The prediction models are different, so they react to the initial data differently,…
Record Growth in U.S. Organic Producers
…U.S. producers and handlers. The data announced today are publicly available as part of the recently launchedOrganic Integrity Database, a modernized system for tracking certified organic operations. In the past,…
Pork Producers Support ‘CARB’ Recommendations
…delivered in feed and water. Additionally, the pork industry has invested more than $6 million to collect data related to and conduct research on the resistance issue, including on alternative…
Agri View: Feral Hog Efforts
…aimed at getting more precise data about the cost of feral hog damage in specific regions. Rob Pavey/SPECIAL – About 65 farmers, landowners and sportsmen attended a Feral Hog Management…
2016 Award Winners for Agriculture, Technology
…developing a product that gathers data on more than 350,000 calls per day to produce insights that not only identify the data, but establish how that data was produced, the…