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)….
Bayer Says Dicamba Decision Likely Coming Soon
…The company says that number was down to 13 complaints per million acres of seed in 2018. Bayer estimates dicamba-tolerant crops covered 50 million acres this year and predicts that…
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,…
There were at least 35,000 acres of asparagus...Now you're looking at about 2,000 acres.
Jeff Klein, California Asparagus Commissioner
Agri View: Bad Weather Year
…heat practically everywhere. It was worse than this back in the 1930’s. It wasn’t just the dust bowl which destroyed crops and drove farmers off the land. It covered 50…
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: Peanut Yield Success
…the success has made peanuts one of the most successful crops in the southeast. Hard work and dedication. It works every time. That’s Agri View for today. I’m Everett Griner……
Building Good Soil for Your Garden
…are unable to access this stuff. For most crops, we want our soils to be mildly acidic; somewhere between 6.0 and 6.5 is the ideal pH balance. I’m Cathy Isom……
Roberts, Stabenow Announce Ag Trade Hearing
…values for corn and soybean crops, and others, as part of the trade mitigation package producers may now apply to receive payment. The payments to farmers are based on 2018…