…Bruce Babcock, Ph.D., a professor in the School of Public Policy at the University of California, Riverside, to conduct the research. His findings quantified the significant impact of citrus on…
Crop Protection Companies Readying for Robot Sprayers
…with actual weedkiller. The machine is a new breed of AI weeders that investors say could disrupt the $100 billion pesticides and seeds industry by reducing the need for universal…
USDA Announces Streamlined Purchase Program to Supply Nutrition Assistance Programs with American Farm Products
…Ibach. USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) purchases a variety of high-quality food each year to support the National School Lunch Program, the Commodity Supplemental Food Program, the Food Distribution Program…
Texas Tech to Launch Veterinary School
…addressing the critical shortage of rural veterinarians, the school will be the only veterinary school in the country co-located with a pharmacy school and medical school on the same campus,…
Secretary Perdue Commits to Prioritizing Food Waste Solutions
…Law School Food Law and Policy Clinic Matt Knott, Feeding America Jon Hixson, YUM! Brands Inc Jessica Montoya, Sodexo Kyle Waide, Atlanta Community Food Bank Brett Reinford, Reinford Farms, PA…
Fresno State Awarded Irrigation Innovation Grant
…Technologies has been involved with irrigation research since 1980, school officials said. Collectively the universities will use the grant to launch the Irrigation Innovation Consortium. Fresno State officials said the…
Clean 15 Fruits and Veggies of 2018
…a fortune for them. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. The Environmental Working Group, or EWG, identifies fruits and vegetables that have the highest and lowest pesticide residues….
New Water Sensing Technology Coming to Almond Orchards
…fertilizer and pesticide use. The Yara Water Solution originally came to California for trials in citrus groves. After a few years of development, the technology has now been calibrated to…
CA Judge Says Glyphosate Can Be Listed Under Prop 65
A California Appeals Court sided with the Center for Food Safety and the state of California in affirming that Monsanto’s glyphosate pesticide can be listed under Prop 65. The listing…
Turning Integrated Pest Management Ideas Into Action
…the director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, in remarks at the April 2018 IPM Summit. The ever increasing incidence of invasive pests and the concerns about how to…
Record Attendance at Post-Harvest Pest Control Conference
…Quality Council Jim Cranney provided information on some of the most recent council activity and Director of the California Department of Pesticide Regulation Brian Leahy also addressed attendees on the…
Food Waste Resonates Beyond the Trash Bin
…like pesticide and fertilizer, as well as irrigation water. For example, using a powerful computing tool known as the U.S. Foodprint Model, the team determined that from 2007 to 2014,…
Farm Co-ops Applaud the American Food for American Schools Act
…on the extent of this problem.” Beginning in the late 1980s, provisions were added to the school lunch and breakfast programs that require schools to purchase domestic commodities and food…
Providing Perspective on the Annual Dirty Dozen List
The Environmental Working Group (EWG) has released their annual Dirty Dozen list, which according to their methodology, names the produce that has the highest levels of pesticide residue. The analysis…