…of Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue’s address at the American Farm Bureau Federation’s annual convention and the Almond Board of California reminds us how important sanitation is for battling navel orangeworm….
Register for Agricultural Reuse Workshop
…Regional County Sanitation District. The workshop will provide information of the science of agricultural water reuse as it relates to the Western United States. Registration and the continental breakfast will…
USDA Highlights $40 Million in Infrastructure Investments in Rural Communities
…of Wauchula received $279,546 to purchase a side arm sanitation truck and 1,500 sanitation bins for the city. The new truck replaces three older ones that are unreliable and costly…
Breeding Resistant Chickens for Improved Food Safety
…well-being and food safety. Protecting chickens from pathogens involves sanitation, vaccination, biosecurity and use of antibiotics and other medications. But some chickens have an especially robust and efficient immune response…
Watching Out for Black-Hearted Pomegranates
…aphids and stink bugs. Sanitation is important to limiting the inoculum source. “Fungal infections are spread from wounds and from diseased fruit and so you cut out diseased tissue, get…
Training Courses to Fulfill Part of Produce Safety Rule
…health, hygiene, and training, along with postharvest handling and sanitation. Instruction will also address how to develop a farm food safety plan. Along with food safety, attendees will also be…
NOW Damage Bigger Issue Than Growers Think
…to winter sanitation.” Doll also noted that some growers may have been too relaxed in their attitudes toward NOW and are not fully appreciating the importance of winter sanitation in…
APHIS Publishes Final Rule to Allow Fresh Hass Avocado Fruit from Colombia into the Continental U.S.
…include but is not limited to, the following: grove and packing house certification, monthly inspections for registered groves during the harvest and shipping seasons, grove pest control and sanitation requirements,…
Laurel Wilt Experts Caution California Avocado Industry
…was trying to demonstrate is that this disease moves so fast through the root grafts amongst adjacent trees that if you do not implement sanitation procedures as quickly as possible,…
UF Scientists to Help California, Florida Growers Control Dangerous Avocado Pathogen
…symptomatic for laurel wilt and then implementing sanitation procedures without delay,” Crane said. “This is the most reliable way to prevent the spread of the pathogen through root grafts among…
Glyphosate-resistant Johnsongrass Management Webcast
…and sanitation techniques This presentation is available at no charge, courtesy of Cotton Incorporated, through the ‘Focus on Cotton’ webcast resource located at the Plant Management Network, http://www.plantmanagementnetwork.org/foco. ‘Focus on…
NMPF Facilitates NCIMS Passage of Proposals to Enhance Safety of Dairy Foods
…approximately 40 of the 100 proposals offered to revise the conference’s model milk sanitation ordinance and supporting documents. “NMPF appreciates the opportunity to advocate on behalf of our members and…
Almond Matters: Controlling NOW Populations Early
In this week’s Almond Matters, brought to you by Valent U.S.A. Corporation, good sanitation is key to controlling navel orangeworm (NOW). Coupling sanitation with an early treatment will help control…
Avian Influenza Found in Mexico
…and the birds were sent to a nearby slaughterhouse. Mexico’s agriculture sanitation authority said the outbreak occurred in the same area where the virus was detected in 2012 and was…