…crop agriculture: helping farmers meet Food Safety Modernization Act standards; and helping them adapt to California’s historic drought with methods that reduce water use or improve efficiency. The 2016 SCBGP…
Agri View: Weather Problems
…year is no different. Droughts are common. Seems one region is hit by floods every year. It does seem that tornadoes are a little more common in the upper mid-west…
International Year of Rangelands and Pastoralists
…Titled Combating desertification, land degradation and drought and promoting pastoralism and rangelands, the resolution required high level support from more than 100 countries and calls for: raising global awareness of…
Western View: This year, it’s La Nina
Autumn arrived right on schedule, and after all those years of drought, we’re all wondering just how much rain we will get this winter. la-nina-winter The portents are good; it’s…
Forestry Experts Say Tree Mortality Brings Added Risk
…that 66 million trees—mostly pine species—have died in the southern Sierra alone, due to bark beetle infestations, drought, wildfire and climate change. One question now, experts say, is what will…
Pacific Region Fruit & Nut Review
…in Clewiston (Hendry County) at 1.35 inches. According to the August 30, 2016 U.S. Drought Monitor, the northern half of the Indian River District remained in abnormally dry conditions. Small…
Importance of Accurate Evapotranspiration
Getting an accurate evapostranspiration rate for locations in your production can be an important practice in surviving the prolonged drought in California. UC Cooperative Extension Horticulture Advisor, Mary Bianchi, said…
California Saw Snow Drought in 2016
…California ‘snow drought.’ The California Department of Water Resources (DWR) explains the term in its recently released Drought and Water Year 2016: Hot and Dry Conditions Continue, a water year…
Clean Water Act: Report Details how Agencies Expand Authority
…they must leave it idle due to drought or other conditions beyond their control.” American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall said the report exposed “reckless and unlawful actions” in…
Putin Tells Russia to Not Hurry Grain Movement
…year enjoyed a mild winter and warm, wet summer, helping them bounce back from the 2010 drought. Russia’s agricultural output has gradually recovered from its tough Soviet times when the…
Sacramento Valley Rice Harvest Accelerates
Having reduced their plantings in recent years due to the drought, California rice farmers are harvesting a bigger crop this season—but they are also feeling the pinch of lower market…
Drought May Accelerate Shot Hole Borer Spread
Shot hole borer spread might be aided by the prolonged drought as the pest was introduced to California during the some of the state’s driest years. As the drought continues,…
Farmers Consider Impacts of River Plan
…a region beset by high unemployment and other impacts of a lingering recession and drought.” The document predicted the plan would cause the Merced County economy to shrink by $231…
Project Aids Food Supply for Delta Smelt
…see if we could boost the delta smelt food supply in the western delta in this fifth year of drought,” said Charlton Bonham, director of the California Department of Fish…