Cultivating Maize and Squashes with a Bone Hoe Hidatsa Indians Everett Griner talks about crops we learned to grow from Native Americans in today’s Agri View. Learning from Native Americans…
Perdue Comments on DOJ Filing in 9th Circuit Chlorpyrifos Ruling
…on well over 50 crops grown throughout the United States due to its efficacy and broad-spectrum activity across multiple pests. For some crops and target pests, chlorpyrifos is the only…
Agri View: Another Nematode
…is a plant pathogen that is highly reproductive commonly found in cotton and soybeans. It also thrives in specialty crops like sugarcane and sweet potatoes. I mention these crops because…
CDFA Accepting 2019 Specialty Crop Block Grant Applications
…to award funds to projects that solely enhance the competitiveness of California specialty crops. Specialty crops include fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture)….
Agri View: Worst Wildfire Year Ever?
…isn’t row crop land that takes the worst beating in wildfires. The vast amount of grazing land, weather it is for domestic livestock or wildlife, has already been staggering. Here…
Bayer Says Dicamba Decision Likely Coming Soon
…for the product in the weeks ahead. Liam Condon, President of the Crop Science Division at Bayer, says, “The EPA wants to make a decision before the next growing season…
Florence Washing Away Cotton and Tobacco Crops
The record-setting and still-rising floodwaters of Hurricane Florence are wreaking havoc on cotton and tobacco crops in the Carolinas. North Carolina Farm Bureau spokesperson Lynda Loveland says it’s going to…
USDA Announces Investment to Expand Markets for Specialty Crop and Other Farmers
…of agriculture in 50 states, the District of Columbia and five U.S. territories through the Specialty Crop Block Grant Program (SCBGP) to support farmers growing specialty crops, including fruits, vegetables,…
Tariffs Cause Decline in August Almond Exports
…almonds shipped in August. This year experienced a decrease of nearly nine percent, shipping only 154,227,371 pounds. As of August 31, the report also showed 189,498,340 pounds of crop receipts,…
There were at least 35,000 acres of asparagus...Now you're looking at about 2,000 acres.
Jeff Klein, California Asparagus Commissioner
Farm Bureau Details Trade, Tariff Impacts on Agriculture
…crop there. In response to U.S. tariffs on steel and aluminum, as well as those imposed on only China for violations related to U.S. intellectual property, China has imposed hefty…
Using Solar Energy to Dry Pomace Increases Potential for Other Uses
…collaboration between the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) and UC Merced and was funded through the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Specialty Crop Block Grant Program, which looks to…
California Navel Oranges Forecast to Rebound in 2018-19
…the statistical models estimating production. The varieties forecast in this report include conventional, organic, and specialty Navel oranges (including Cara Cara and Blood orange varieties). Survey data indicated a fruit…
Agri View: Grape Production and Consumption
Everett Griner talks about grape production for consumption in today’s Agri View. Grape Production and Consumption Most people consider the annual grape crop to be produced for wine making. If…