…Food Price Index averaged 172.6 points in October, up 0.7 percent for the month and 9.1 percent from a year earlier, with the staple grains’ index rising for the first…
EPA Approves Some Dicamba-Based Herbicides
…which is also a glyphosate and dicamba blend. Farmers have been using dicamba for years to kill weeds before they plant crops. Up until this week, farmers haven’t been able…
Incentives to Grow the Bioeconomy and Improve Forest Health
…to farmers and ranchers who establish and maintain new crops of biomass for energy or biobased products; additional information on the resumption of those funds will be announced at a…
Growing Quality Tomatoes with Half the Nitrogen and a Third Less Water
…than 20 years ago, when he was an employee of Sano Farms in Firebaugh, Calif., Sanchez asked his boss if he could experiment with cover crops (crops that keep cropland…
Agri View: Bees and Honey
…transported to California every year to pollinate tree nuts. They are also going to New York to pollinate apples. To Maine to pollinate blueberries and Massachusetts for cranberry crops. And…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…armed with knowledge and tools to make their crops and livestock more resilient to disease while keeping costs low for farmers so they can continue doing what they do best….
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…issues,” Keck said. Dates represented nearly $41 million worth of crops in Riverside County alone last year, according to the county agricultural commissioner’s report. Keck said that the response to…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
…of CRP Grasslands is to minimize conversion of grasslands either to row crops or to non-agricultural uses. Participants can receive annual payments of up to 75 percent of the grazing…
Agri View: Farm Progress
…practical on any acre of land and time is calculated in minutes. Corn is an example in this case. Other grain crops kept pace with corn. In fact all crops…
New York Times Claims GM Crops Offer No Benefit
A study by the New York Times claims genetically modified crops offer no significant yield benefit and lead to increased herbicide use. An article published over the weekend by the…
Changing Organization and Well-Being of Midsize Farms
…also increased dramatically, driven by rapid appreciation in farmland values over the latter half of this period. In 2014, production on midsize farms that specialized in dairy, high-value crops, or…
World Wildlife Numbers Down Since 1970
…populations of 3,700 species of vertebrates – creatures that range in size from pea-sized frogs to 100 foot-long whales. And the report claims the rising human population is threatening wildlife…
Agri View: Land facts
…crops. It is pasture land. It is a well-established that the biggest crops are corn, wheat and soybeans. Next is rice and cotton. Now here are some other interesting land…
Future of Our Agricultural Community
Internship/mentoring program brings in ag students for summer study in public service The average age of the California farmer is about 60 – and it’s rising. Here at the California…