…using cover crops. The American Seed Trade Association says multi-year data shows increasing yields as cover crops are planted year after year. Farmers surveyed said their use of cover crops…
Oregon State Fair to Feature Prize Winning Marijuana Plants
…cannabis plants is a nod to the newly legal status of the crop. A spokesperson for the Oregon State Fair said feature the state’s marijuana crop shows the fair is…
Farmers Increasing Rye Plantings
…crop in years as consumers satisfy a growing thirst for whiskey. Rye, planted in autumn and harvested in mid-summer, fell in popularity during the past decade as other crops produced…
Scope of New Olive Disease
…is related to a fungus that causes something called bullseye rot in apples and pears.” We will continue following developments on this new olive crop problem and keep you updated….
Seed to Table
…quick-growing, with some varieties — Quarantina — maturing in just 40 days. By reputation, broccoli rabe is another cool weather crop, but some growers say, if young plants are harvested…
California Citrus Challenges: Water Tops HLB
…all-fresh crop, and up to $500 per acre for access to water from government and private sources, he explains. Mandarin groves are netted each spring at a cost of about…
Brexit May Help UK Biotech Approval Process
The CEO for Syngenta pointed to Brexit as a boost for the United Kingdom’s crop regulations, saying he sees the referendum vote to leave the European Union as an “opportunity…
Syngenta Calls Regulatory Talks Constructive
…crop-care chemicals, although temporarily. The Dow-DuPont merger and Bayer’s possible acquisition of Monsanto will reorder the rankings as the top six suppliers fight for market share and financial power to…
Electronic Bug Trap Reduces Labor
…University, in collaboration with Carnegie Mellon and Penn State, received a grant from USDA to solve labor intensive tasks in high-value specialty crops,” vice president of software, Ben Brame says….
Overachieving Garden
…coming from our gardens, and frankly, those who do are people whom I envy. Many of us crop cultivators struggle at the beginning, working to yield a handful of tomatoes…
Agri View: Crop Losses
Everett Griner talks about crop losses due to weather in today’s Agri View. Crop Losses From: EarthSky Extreme weather lowers global crop yield By Benjamin D. Duval, Contributing writer for…
Tomato growers reduce acreage to match markets
…of this week, about 8 percent of the state’s crop has been harvested. After growers produced two years of record crops, tomato processors have scaled back contracted acres this year…
Crop Insurance Program Still Growing and Healthy
The man who runs the USDA’s Risk Management Agency says the crop insurance program is growing and is financially healthy. Gary Crawford has the story. Crop Insurance Program…
Lessons from Six California Soil Care Farmers
…local cropping contexts. The series of visits demonstrated the use of no-till and minimum tillage farming, cover cropping, enhancing the diversity of above-ground species and underground soil biology, surface residue…