…find better ways to reduce pesticide use, increase irrigation efficiency, reduce travel into the fields, manage people better, and deal with the fact that we have a huge labor shortage…
Man’s New Best Friend
…team from QMUL’s School of Biological and Chemical Sciences training goats to remove a lid from a box to receive a reward. In the final test, they make the reward…
Agri View: Bourbon
…good friends. After meeting in high school at Tempe’s Marcos de Niza– with Hu later taking over operations at Yucca Tap Room and Grossmiller quitting his job as a blackjack…
Agri View: Pesticide Use and Losing Ability to Produce
Everett Griner talks about pesticide use and farmers losing their ability to produce in today’s Agri View. Pesticide Use From: Food Dialogues What Would Happen if Pesticides Were Banned, or…
More Groundwater Found in Central Valley
…and Australia,” said study co-author Mary Kang, a postdoctoral associate at Stanford School of Earth, Energy & Environmental Sciences. A fresh look at groundwater Previous estimates of groundwater in California…
National Pollinator Week
…and how to attract them to your schoolyard. USFWS monarch butterfly website – learn about its life-cycle and migration, and how you can help save this iconic species. The Nature’s…
ADC Forms Farmer Advisory Board
…school. “We are excited to have a diverse group of producers from across the Midwest, the Plains, the West and the South to provide invaluable insight into the unique needs…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
…information about restricted use pesticides, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-safety/restricted-use-products-rup-report For more information about pesticides and worker safety, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/pesticide-worker-safety For more information on FIFRA and its enforcement, please visit: https://www.epa.gov/laws-regulations/summary-federal-insecticide-fungicide-and-rodenticide-act…
Pacific Region Fruit and Nut Review
…harvested and peach orchards were being thinned. Pesticide sprays on almond and pistachio orchards continued. Canopy management including shoot separation, shoot thinning, and leaf removal was completed, in order to…
Farming from the Heart- Erin Gorter from Cal Poly SLO
Many current issues within the agriculture industry have surfaced, and Ag education seems to be one of them. The lack of Ag teachers in our California schools is one of…
Agri View: Pesticide Residue
Everett Griner talks about avoiding consuming pesticide residue in today’s Agri View. Pesticide Residue From: EWG.org EWG’s 2016 Shopper’s Guide to Pesticides in Produce™ Nearly three-fourths of the 6,953 produce…
Market Match Program Helps Families and Farmers
…the Sol Price School of Public Policy, University of Southern California, and utilizes direct observation, consumer and farmer surveys, program manager interviews, and intensive consumer surveys. Of the 844 shoppers…
Agri View: GMO Legislation
…Side Capital Flows , Contributor to Forbes by Omri Ben-Shahar, professor at the University of Chicago Law School As more states pass mandatory GMO labeling laws, Congress has been trying…
FARMS Students Report on Agriculture
High school students get chance to be agriculture reporters for the day AgNet West and Clovis Grower Matt Efird worked with the FARMS Leadership program to show Central Valley students…