Food Price Survey

DanGeneral, This Land of Ours

…farmer’s share of this $53.28 marketbasket would be $8.52. AFBF, the nation’s largest general farm organization, began conducting informal quarterly marketbasket surveys of retail food price trends in 1989. The…

CA Farmers Achieve More Air Quality Gains

Taylor HillmanEnvironment

Although California continues to cope with some of the Nation’s most compromised air quality, farmers continued to reduce emissions from their operations in 2015. During 2015, California’s farmers, working with…

Challenges With ILRP Reporting

Taylor HillmanEnvironment, Water

…Reporting The East San Joaquin County Water Quality Coalition has an April 1 deadline to submit nitrogen reporting for the ILRP. Stanislaus County Farm Bureau Executive Director Wayne Zipser says…

Agri View: New Cash Crop

DanAgri View, Specialty Crops

…crop which is grown for sale to return a profit. It is typically purchased by parties separate from a farm. The term cash crop is applied exclusively to the agricultural…

First Group Testing ILRP Nitrogen Reporting

Taylor HillmanEnvironment, Water

…San Joaquin County Water Quality Coalition will be the guinea pig, so to speak, for nitrogen reporting with the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program (ILRP). Stanislaus County Farm Bureau Executive Director…

Agri View: Inventions and Agriculture

DanAgri View

…Farming in America Let’s Talk Rusty Iron: The inventions that stand out in the history of farming and farm machinery. By Sam Moore Here are what (Sam Moore) considers to…