In the second part of her series, Cathy Isom tells us about the items you already have in your kitchen to help keep your food from making you sick. Safe…
California Federal Milk Order Hearing Begins Next Week
…Food and Agriculture, a Tentative Hearing Schedule and hearing Q&A. The Proposals, Notice of Hearing, Press Release and Preliminary Economic Analysis are also available at the link above. The USDA…
NCF Accepting Applications for Beef Industry Scholarship
…careers in the beef industry. “The CME Beef Industry Scholarship enables us to invest in the next generation of our nation’s food producers, while helping them understand the importance of…
Tight U.S. Supply Boosts Sales of Specialty Eggs
…he’s seeing “much higher demand” for those products as the nation’s egg supply continues to be tight. “We are definitely selling as many (eggs) as we can produce right now,”…
State Pear Growers Report Quality Crop
…season’s Bartlett pears to canneries in need of supply. “We closed the packing shed officially in March,” said Campbell, a longtime employee at Adobe Creek. “We felt closing our packing…
Progress Reported on Planning for Sites Reservoir
…the water commission to understand project funding requirements. “Sites will provide a lot of flexibility and benefits to the state’s water supply system wide,” said Watson, explaining the annual reservoir…
Packinghouse Field Manager Training for ACP
…and the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the meetings will discuss ways packinghouse representatives who work in the field and/or interact with field crews can help prevent the spread…
Farm to Fork Exhibition and Great Grape Event to Open at Fresno State
Fresno State’s Henry Madden Library presents its newest exhibition, “Farm to Fork: Food, Family, Farming” opening Sept. 18 in the Leon S. Peters Ellipse Gallery. Curated by the Madden Library’s…
Oriental Fruit Fly Quarantine in Portions of L. A. County
…some of the same reasons other travelers do – the pleasant climate and the tremendous variety of food, for example. Fortunately, we have a great track record of eradicating these…
State Board Drops Planned Grazing Rule
…project raised serious concerns among ranchers, who feared the new rules could limit their food-production activities while yielding little environmental benefits. Many ranchers attended the listening sessions to express their…
Food Expiration-part 2
The second part of this series on food expiration Cathy Isom tells us what we can do to keep food longer than the so-called expiration date. Food Expiration-2…
Food Expiration-part 1
…the first part of her series on food expiration Cathy Isom tells us how expiration dates on packaging may be misleading consumers into tossing out perfectly good food. Food Expiration-1…
California Dairy Families Challenge Consumers to “Pour It Forward” With Milk Donations
Milk is one of the most-requested nutrition staples at food banks, but out of the more than 377 million meals served by California food banks each year, the facilities are…
Water for Food Security, A Global Conference At UC Davis
On October 5 – 6, 2015,University of California (UC) Davis’ World Food Center will address the growing demands on water systems for agriculture. A panel of international experts and thought…