…bus and joined a record 1400+ high school students throughout central and northern California at the Arbuckle FFA Field Day on February 7th. The FFA Field Day marks the beginning…
Vilsack Announces $30 Million to Fight Citrus Disease
…due to HLB infection. One of those will field test rootstocks that have shown ability to tolerate HLB infection. The other will use technologies to rapidly propagate the tolerant material…
California’s Diversity Reflected In Pesticide Outreach
California’s diversity isn’t just seen in its crops, but also in the people who grow them. This slideshow requires JavaScript. In the fields, you’ll hear workers speaking not only Spanish…
Iteris and F4F Agriculture Sign Memorandum of Understanding to Establish Formal Partnership
…enable agribusinesses to ingest specific, actionable, high-resolution weather, crop and soil information for data-driven farming. The ClearAg™ API platform takes field-specific weather, combines it with the science of soil and…
CDFA Announces New Grant Funding Opportunity for Nitrogen Management Research
…nitrous oxide emission. Proposals on employment of easy-to-use technology at the field-scale and development of integrated water and nutrient management tools are also encouraged. In particular, FREP seeks proposals on…
Atwater FFA Students Advance to Regional Speaking Finals
…agriculture program sophomore Jasmine Flores placed first overall and will be moving onto the regional finals in the Impromptu Speaking contest. The impromptu speech is given without any preparation, any…
International Center for Water Technology receives up to $1.12M grant
…in all segments of the water field. We’ve worked with 35 companies the last 1 1/2 years to foster new ideas in the sector, and we’re looking forward to encouraging…
UC Makes Gains in Rebuilding its Extension Service
…field or doing research. For this reason, Scott Oneto, a farm advisor and county director of UC Central Sierra Cooperative Extension, which covers El Dorado, Tuolumne, Calaveras and Amador counties,…
Use of Fumigant to Face Additional State Restrictions
…surrounding neighbors and to conduct field monitoring. I believe that input helped preserve this provision as an option, as opposed to having to do both activities,” Cory said. Fumigants can…
Dithane® F-45 Rainshield® Fungicide Registered for Walnuts
…field scientist. “In fact, growers have relied on this combination for more than 20 years. University of California efficacy trials continue to show the mancozeb + copper combination is the…
Tomato Processors Expect to Contract 15 Million Tons in 2015
The USDA-NASS California Field Office surveyed the State’s tomato processors for their intended contract acreage and tonnage for the upcoming 2015 season. The data reported by processors was either tonnage…
California Crop and Weather Report
…a little over one inch. Little to no snowfall accumulation occurred in the mountains. FIELD CROPS Field preparation and planting of winter wheat for grain and silage continued. Wheat, oats,…
Pacific Regional Crop Production Report
The USDA-NASS Pacific Regional Field Office today released the crop production forecasts that reflect conditions as of January 1. The latest survey, conducted during the last week of December 2014…
Western View: Your Phone is Your Partner
…which means all of the data is stored on their computers and you’re working on the same file no matter which device you’re using. Field activities such as planting, fertilizing…