…connection between what dairy cows eat, and the milk they produce. DeGroff says it all comes down to the quality of the feed the cows receive. Higher quality feed means…
AgNeTVideo Report: Dairy at the World Ag Expo
…up inside the dairy center, where they talked with current, and perhaps future, dairy farmers. A popular attraction was the California milk advisory board booth and the Dairy Princess. Along…
2012 CA Wine Grape Production
2012 was a good year for California wine grape growers. They crushed 4.01 million tons of grapes after the 2012 harvest, which sets a new record. The previous record was…
Bovine Tuberculosis Detected at Tulare County Dairy
…history of bovine TB in California, click here. Bovine tuberculosis does not threaten the quality and safety of milk and meat products in California. Almost all milk sold in California…
Proposed Federal Milk Marketing Order
…changes to their industry. Three big California dairy coops are sponsoring a seminar dealing with the proposal of setting up a Federal Milk Marketing Order in the state. Folks from…
ASTA Vegetable and Flower Seed Conference Enlightens, Educates
…whom we interviewed. Both Southeast AgNet and AgNet West radio networks reach growers in both these major U. S. vegetable production regions, and we found a number of questions to…
ASTA: CA Seed Researcher Comments On Intellectual Property Rights
…driving vegetable varieties forward. Her comments in our interview are targeted to vegetable growers in California and other U. S. vegetable production areas. Click to Open or Download Audio Report…
More California Sweet Potatoes Coming
…potato production. That would make California the lone bright spot for sweet potato production in the nation. Three other top sweet potato producing states, North Carolina, Louisiana and Mississippi are…
CDFA Announces Answer To Milk Price Hearing
The CDFA has announced it’s answer to the milk price hearing last month, but is it too little, too late? The CDFA says it will temporarily increase Class 1,2,3, 4a…
Strawberry Growers Fight Weather
…YouTube from a field being harvested in Oxnard. California is the nation’s leader in strawberry production, generating over $2-billion a year. Strawberries are grown year round in the Golden State….
Census of Agriculture Forms Due Soon
…better decisions about farm safety net programs and policies. The census collects detailed data covering nearly every facet of U.S. agriculture. It looks at land use and ownership, production practices,…
Ag Sec Vilsack: Complete 2012 Census of Agriculture
…use and ownership, production practices, expenditures and other factors that affect the way farmers do business and succeed in the 21st Century. Census information helps USDA monitor trends and understand…
Almond Prices Expected to Climb
…message for growers. The entire U-S almond crop is grown here in California…which generates about four billion dollars. And California almonds make up 80-percent of the entire world almond production….
Cleaning Up Greenhouse Gasses
…milk producer. Now, the Innovation Center for US Dairy is helping the dairy industry reduce greenhouse gasses in a new way. It’s developed a website for that purpose. Laura Mandell…