…of participating stakeholders. For more information about the National Honey Board, contact Patricia Petrella at (202) 720-9915, or email Patricia.Petrella@ams.usda.gov. For more information about research and promotion programs, visit www.ams.usda.gov/rules-regulations/research-promotion….
World Soil Day: Celebrating the Magic Beneath
…little attention from us. Now, however, we are working actively in California to remove excess carbon from our atmosphere while enriching soil fertility. Farmers throughout California are using techniques such…
More Volatility Ahead for Cattle Markets
…global slowdown,” he said. The bull market for commodities started in 2009 at the end of the global financial crisis. Crop farmers and livestock producers all raised their production efforts…
Proposed Tax Regulation a Threat to Future Cattle Farms
…farmers and ranchers will face an even greater tax burden during the difficult task of transferring minority interests to the next generation,” said Kester. “Having dealt with the death tax…
Farm Income Drops 17 Percent in 2016
U.S. farmers will see their net incomes drop in 2016 for the third consecutive year. The U.S. Department of Agriculture says weaker cash returns on livestock, poultry, and dairy farms…
Winter Vegetable Harvest Gets Early Start
…market gap while farmers in more southern regions accelerate their production, but Hawk said there’s not likely to be a shortage during the transition this year. “There’s lettuce, romaine; other…
Mediterranean Fruit Fly Quarantine Near Panorama City
…210. A link to the quarantine map may be found here: www.cdfa.ca.gov/plant/medfly/regulation.html. In response, CDFA will also continue with the release of sterile male Medflies at a rate of 250,000…
Agri View: Hard Work
…if you measured the labor input of all agriculture dairy farming would be at or near the top. Dairy farmers have to produce a crop just like any other farmer….
New Test Genetically IDs Fungal Wheat Threat
…Why? Because it stands up to wheat’s most destructive disease, leaf rust. Other varieties have amazed even dubious wheat farmers by resisting the Hessian fly and cereal leaf beetle, two…
Feed Inspection Advisory Board Vacancies
…submit a short resume along with a completed Prospective Member Appointment Questionnaire (PMAQ) by February 20, 2017. The PMAQ is available on the CDFA website at: https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/is/ffldrs/pdfs/ProspectiveMemberAppointmentQuestionnaire.pdf Send the resume…
California Fighting Global Warming on the Backs of Dairy Farmers
…U.S. News and World Report publication. California dairy farmers are dealing with five years of drought, low milk prices and rising labor costs. A spokesperson for Western United Dairymen says:…
Agri View: Farm Production
Everett Griner talks about centuries of production growth in today’s Agri View. Farm Production Well farming has long been America’s largest industry the number of farmers has steadily declined since…
CA State Plan: Make Water Conservation A Way of Life
…Water Conservation a California Way of Life Implementing Executive Order B-37-16” Comments should be submitted to wue@water.ca.gov no later than December 19, 2016. Public comments will be posted at: http://www.water.ca.gov/wateruseefficiency/conservation/comments.cfm….
Farmers and Ranchers to Protect Working Grasslands
…from beginning farmers, veterans and underserved producers. About two-thirds of the acres are in counties with the highest threat for conversion. Additionally, nearly 60 percent of the acres are in…






















