…combined with its easy-to-use mobile software, reports to growers how crops are faring in real time – before stresses such as drought or lack of aeration can have a negative…
USDA, Microsoft Announce Innovation Challenge Winners
…on the farm economy, production, and the health of crops around the country, and it is exciting to see such modern, useful tools spring from these information sources.” The Challenge…
Agri View: GMO Questions
…wild (referred to as “outcrossing”), as well as the mixing of crops derived from conventional seeds with GM crops, may have an indirect effect on food safety and food security….
Ag Seeks Silicon Valley’s Help to Satisfy World Food Demand
…technology that helps farmers use as few resources as possible to produce the largest amount of food — from reducing the amount of water needed to grow certain crops to…
Farmer Feedback Survey
…Be sure to give your two cents on your experience with USDA and make sure that your crops, your commodities are represented in our final results.” To find the survey…
Sanitation Key for NOW, No Matter the Nut
…sanitize, and the more host crops we have next door to each other, the more important that becomes for everyone.” Find out more about NOW from the UC IPM website….
Ports Shutdown Slowed Growth in 2015
The 2015 ports shutdown had a big impact on a lot of California crops, and that includes almonds. Ports Shutdown Slowed Growth Almond shipments continued to grow in 2015 but…
Agri View: Bad Economic Year
…in specialty crop receipts in 2015, while final farm income for 2014 was revised upward by $1.9 billion since August and $13.5 billion since February. Today’s estimates also indicate that…
Feed a Bee
Cathy Isom tells us about the national campaign creating quite a buzz for honey bees. You may recall Bayer CropScience launched the Feed a Bee campaign last year. A major…
The Western View: Indoor Vertical Farming
…than open air farms, they aren’t subjected to the vagaries of weather, and can be located anywhere. Plus, the crops are grown year round without regard to the seasons. With…
Wet Weather Doesn’t Hinder Citrus Harvest
…81 million cartons, produced on fewer acres and yielding somewhat smaller fruit, the U.S. Department of Agriculture crop survey predicts. The forecast includes conventional, organic and specialty navel oranges, including…
Farm Bureau Delegates Chart a Course for 2016
…Risk Management Delegates approved new policies that covered a wide range of agricultural topics. Among other things, they: * Supported the addition of cottonseed to the list of oilseed crops…
Truth Matters to Consumers
…farming and livestock practices. What they found, however, was a fourth-generation farmer admitting to using chemicals on his crops, antibiotics in his animals and technology on his farm. But with…
USDA Awards $3 Million for Robotics Research
…that Commercial Off-The-Shelf (COTS) robot systems can be used in automation tasks involving specialty crops. University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, Pa., $556,726 – This project utilizes swarms of Unmanned Aerial Vehicles…