…ruling earlier, according to Dow Jones. Bayer had already agreed to sell selected crop-science businesses to BASF for $7.3 billion last October. This first deal covers Bayer’s LibertyLink technology for…
Agri View: Agriculture Weather
…farmers in the southeast heavily. The major damage was to the fruit and vegetable crops. But, other sectors of agriculture were also impacted. Few people are aware that almost half…
USDA Offers Renewal Options for Expiring Conservation Stewardship Contracts
…expiring contracts are due by April 13. Through CSP, agricultural producers and forest landowners earn payments for actively managing, maintaining, and expanding conservation activities like cover crops, ecologically-based pest management,…
USDA Helps Cotton Producers Maintain, Expand Domestic Market
…based on the 2016 cotton crop, will help to fill the safety net void until the seed cotton ARC/PLC program is implemented beginning with the 2018 crop year. American Cotton…
Bayer AgVocacy Forum Highlights Need for Better Engagement
…we bring ag groups together, we bring food groups together and others,” said Darren Wallis, Vice President of North America Communications for the Crop Science division of Bayer. “It’s really…
Agri View: Feral Hogs Hitting Hard
…will eat anything. They will root up the ground and destroy the land. They like golf courses just as well as they do crop land. It looks like poison is…
California Vegetables More Than Half of U.S. Total
…County. California produced over $850 million of the nation’s $926 million broccoli crop and more than half, $242 million, of the nation’s $401 million spinach crop. What a vegetable delight!…
Agri View: Technology Expanding
…of the world would be hungry. It is more than just driverless tractors. It is satellite guided planting systems, crop irrigation, plant disease, and insect control. Now, it is drones….
Perdue Advocates for Crop Insurance Program
Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue walked a tightrope while talking with reporters about President Trump’s budget proposals that agriculture wasn’t enamored with. One of the proposals included cuts to crop…
CalAgJobs Fundraising Efforts to Benefit California FFA
…connect agricultural employers in California with qualified potential employees. CalAgJobs was recently awarded a USDA grant to promote specialty crops, allowing the company to host free internship listings. “The idea…
How Potential ADM, Bungee Merger Would Impact Farmers
…week that, however, unlike mergers in the seed business, there still is a fair amount of competition in crop marketing. Hart says there are “plenty of marketing outlets” independent from…
Agri View: Big Farm Shows
…the country every year. They draw farmers from their area to show them what is new in equipment and in crop production. Farmers learn a lot. And, they see a…
Low Temperatures Causing Concern for Almond Growers
…I’ve heard so far is lows of down to 24-25 [degrees],” said Kern County Farm Bureau Director and Pearl Crop Grower Representative Jared Britschgi. Irrigating fields is the best tool…
UCCE to be a Leader in Climate Change Awareness and Education
…pistachio, walnut and other important fruit and nut crops has been curbed by unseasonably warm nighttime temperatures. Sustained summertime heat waves are damaging crops and putting diminishing water resources under…