…by Danielle Renwick, Copy Editor/Writer, Brianna Lee, and James McBride, Online Writer/Editor, Economics Council on Foreign Relations Presidents Barack Obama and Raúl Castro shook hands at the Summit of the…
Safety Net Assistance for Milk Producers
…Farm Service Agency (FSA) online at www.fsa.usda.gov/dairy or stop by a local FSA office. Producers may visit www.fsa.usda.gov/mpptool to calculate the best levels of coverage for their dairy operation. To…
July Dairy Market Report
The July issue of the NMPF-DMI Dairy Market Report is now available online. Dairy futures markets suggest milk prices have likely bottomed out for the year, following a drop of…
5th Annual Kids’ “State Dinner”
…and for me as well! The 2016 Healthy Lunchtime Challenge Cookbook and winning recipes are now available online at What’s Cooking? USDA Mixing Bowl for you and your family to…
CDFA to Discuss Medical Cannabis and GMO Labeling
…citizens to discuss current issues of concern to California agriculture. All meetings are open to the public and attendance is welcome. This meeting will be streamed online at: http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/LiveMediaStream.html Follow…
Consumers More Worried About Foodborne Illnesses over GMOs
…or GMOs. The International Food Information Council Foundation commissioned the online study in March of more than 1,000 consumers between the ages of 18 and 30. Consumers were asked to…
NMPF Introduces FARM Environmental Stewardship Component
…this November in Nashville, Tenn., held in conjunction with the NMPF Joint Annual Meeting. An online tutorial will also be made available later this year to cooperatives and producers looking…
Office of Farm to Fork Builds Bridges
…This annual report chronicles the programs and tools developed by the Office of Farm to Fork over the past year. From creating the California Farmer Marketplace–an online tool making it…
Strawberry Tool Tells Producers When to Treat
There’s a new online strawberry tool developed by researchers in Florida and it can save California producers both time and money. Most of us know what strawberry production means to…
Organic Symposium Proceedings Now Available
Summaries of presentations from the 2016 Organic Agriculture Research Symposium (OARS) held in Pacific Grove are now available online at http://eorganic.info/node/16778. Many of the workshops and keynote presentations were recorded…
Extreme Weather Drives Change
…new legislative framework for water conservation and transfers that has enabled our modern water transfer workshop,” Jones says. “The big policy action out of the current drought was it’s impotence…
Asian Citrus Psyllid Quarantines
…The quarantine maps for both Merced and Monterey Counties are available online at: www.cdfa.ca.gov/go/acp-maps. Please check this link for future quarantine expansions in these counties, should they occur. Quarantines in…
Groundwater Monitoring Improves
…fully monitored and more than 1.5 million groundwater elevation measurements from across the state have been entered into the online system that the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) manages…
Funding to Address Climate Change Impact on Agriculture
…resources, grassland and wetlands. A Penn State University project worked to strengthen farm operators’ capacity to manage cropping system’s adaptation to climate change by providing real time online decision making…