…legal challenges to the WOTUS rule and whether federal appeals courts or district courts have jurisdiction. The coalition that has been representing the agriculture industry is led by the National…
Optimism at the California Citrus Conference
…citrus industry as a whole has been able to make significant progress by taking a proactive approach towards HLB. There has been a tremendous investment of manpower examining the challenges…
Avocado Industry Gets Pest Update at Recent Meeting
…meeting consisted of two roundtable discussions that growers were allowed to participate in. The first one centered on historical challenges with pest management such as pesticide resistance, along with new…
Almond Board: Almond Leadership Program
Almond Board of California offers the Almond Leadership Program, a one-year leadership training that inspires and prepares almond community members to join a network of leaders meeting the challenges of…
Farmers, Ranchers Ready for Long-overdue Immigration Reform
Duvall The following statement may be attributed to American Farm Bureau Federation President Zippy Duvall: “Every year, farmers and ranchers face greater challenges in finding enough workers to keep their…
“i5k” is for Insects
…species that are important to both agriculture and biological research. Resistance to pesticides used to control arthropod damage to livestock and crops is an evolving problem. Solutions to such challenges…
UC ANR and AgStart Receive Funding to Cultivate the VINE
…labor shortages, water scarcity, food insecurity, climate change and more. To accelerate the development and adoption of technologies that address these challenges and advance food, agriculture and natural resources in…
Tomato Crop Coming in Lighter than Expected
By Kevin Hecteman Bringing the 2017 tomato harvest to market has been a process fraught with challenges for growers. “I would say things were very mixed up from the beginning…
2017 California Prune Harvest Returns to Typical Levels
…reporting healthy trees that have rebounded from the weather-related challenges of recent years. “We are on track for a good year for California prunes,” said John Taylor, Vice President/Owner, Taylor…
Perdue Comments on Censky and McKinney Senate Committee Hearing
…challenges in agriculture in the coming months and years. “With producers in many states just beginning to assess the damages and losses from back-to-back hurricanes – and with wildfires continuing…
Young Producer’s Perspective on the Dairy Business
It’s a life of high risk and high reward. Dairy farmers face their share of challenges, including a volatile market and unpredictable input costs — however, there are young people…
USDA/NIFA Needs Stakeholder Input on Food, Agriculture Priorities
…extension to solve societal challenges. NIFA’s investments in transformative science directly support the long-term prosperity and global preeminence of U.S. agriculture. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on agricultural sciences,…
ROXY Rice Unveiled at Rice Field Day
…developed by the Rice Experiment Station, specifically the Director, Kent McKenzie,” Brim-DeForest stated. Researchers are pleased with how the variety is coming along, but there are still some challenges that…
Funding to Recruit and Educate a More Diverse Agricultural Workforce
…education, and extension to solve societal challenges. NIFA’s investments in transformative science directly support the long-term prosperity and global preeminence of U.S. agriculture. To learn more about NIFA’s impact on…