…soybeans, almonds, tobacco, peanuts, cotton, lettuce, alfalfa, tomatoes, watermelon, and bell peppers, with some crops having as many as 6 applications per year. Crops that have been properly treated with…
Leap Year and Ag
…the sunflower family. Darker Green lettuce leaves are more nutritious than lighter green leaves. Americans eat about 30 pounds of lettuce every year. That’s about five times more than what…
The California Kitchen: Look and Feel Younger Mix with Pulled Chicken
…carrot diced into 1/4 2 Celery Stalks Cooking Sensations Chipotle Garlic Seasoning 1 Bay leaf 1 Romaine Lettuce Salt/Pepper To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from…
The California Kitchen: Balanced Juice with Southwestern Flat Iron A La Plancha
…of butterhead lettuce 1 pear 1 apple 1 cup of blueberries 1 banana Water and Ice Southwestern Flat Iron A La Plancha 4 Flat Iron Steaks Cleaned Cooking Sensations Chipotle…
Ag Seeks Silicon Valley’s Help to Satisfy World Food Demand
By Natasha Geiling from thinkprogress.org Though it’s just an hour south of California’s Silicon Valley, the Salinas Valley — better known for churning out lettuce and tomatoes than the world’s…
The Western View: Indoor Vertical Farming
…2 million pounds of leafy greens, including kale, arugula and romaine lettuce. The company is call Aerofarms, and they are specialists in indoor growing. They’ve been doing it on a…
Climate Change and Diet
…associated with U.S. food consumption patterns. Eating lettuce is more harmful to the environment than eating bacon. “Eating lettuce is over three times worse in greenhouse gas emissions than eating…
CDFA Accepting Proposals for Fertilizer Research Program
…requested to fill gaps in nitrogen management information for specific crops, including corn, pima cotton, processing tomatoes, baby lettuce, walnuts, citrus, and deep rooted vegetables such as carrots. Other priority…
Pacific Region Field Crop Review
…and hogs but higher prices for lettuce, milk, apples, and sweet corn. In addition to prices, the indexes are influenced by the monthly mix of commodities producers market. Increased monthly…
Trans-Pacific Partnership and Japan
…fresh asparagus, cabbage, lettuce, chickpeas, garlic, and shallots. The 6-percent tariff on fresh sweet corn will be eliminated in four years. For fresh onions, the 8.5-percent and price-based variable tariffs…
USDA Awards $113 Million to Support Specialty Crop Production, Grow Opportunities for Rural Communities
…to sustain the supply of high quality lettuce in the face of changing technology and climate. The University of Florida will research management strategies for Laurel wilt, a lethal disease…
Sales from US Organic Farms up 72 Percent
…$372 million Lettuce, $264 million Apples, $250 million The vast majority of organic agricultural products sold in 2014 were sold close to the farm. According to the report, the first…
The Western View: It’s Summer and Sabrina’s AWOL
…and maybe when she’s back, she’ll send me out on one of those tough jobs out here. I want to go watch lettuce grow; maybe have a fresh-picked strawberry over…
Dow Received A New Crop Label For Their Fungicide – Quintec
…2013 and 2014. “For more than a decade, Quintec has been an important part of powdery mildew management programs in many specialty crops, including lettuce, strawberries and peppers,” says Jim…