…the bad conditions we had like the shortage of water and water quality issue, we hung in there,” Ehn says. “We were probably off two ton in garlic and maybe…
Agri View: Food Protection
…vegetables (such as sprouts) Contaminated water, including drinking untreated water and swimming in contaminated water Animals and their environment: particularly cows, sheep, and goats. If you don’t wash your hands…
Wettest Months Finish Below Average
California’s Three Traditionally Wettest Months End With Statewide Snowpack Water Content Less than Average The statewide snowpack – source of much of California’s water supply – is only 83 percent…
Agri View: Weather Damage Costly
…of warmer-than-normal surface waters over the eastern and central tropical Pacific Ocean. (This warm phase is part of a larger cycle called the El Niño-Southern Oscillation that also has a…
Sustainability on Consumers’ Minds
…by a grower in California requires 33 percent less water than it did 20 years ago.” Better efficiency all around the orchard is creating that number as Humble says it’s…
Leap Year and Ag
…is stored once the cow has chewed the cud and has swallowed it; the omasum where extra water is squeezed out, and finally the food goes to the abomasum. Some…
USDA Invests $25 Million in High-Priority Watersheds to Improve Water Quality
Seventeen New Watersheds Added to National Water Quality Initiative Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced an investment of $25 million targeted to help agriculture producers improve water quality in high-priority…
Agri View: Marijuana, a Hot Crop
…exactly the kind of problem that, hopefully, a legalization will eventually combat; legalized cannabis could be regulated, could be inspected for safe use of rodenticide and pesticide and even water…
State Water Project Allocations Doubled
…dent the state’s historic drought. DWR’s California Data Exchange Center (CDEC) Web sites show current water conditions at the state’s reservoirs and weather stations. Reservoirs: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/resapp/getResGraphsMain.action Precipitation: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/snow_rain.html Snow: http://cdec.water.ca.gov/cdecapp/snowapp/sweq.action…
NACD Submits Letters to Ag Appropriations Committees for Conservation Operations
…each day,” said NACD President Lee McDaniel. In addition, the letters express NACD’s support for funding the Watershed Rehabilitation Program at $100 million and funding the Watershed Operation account at…
The California Kitchen: Asparagus Tempura
…Seltzer Water Club Soda To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen from AgNet West. The California Kitchen: Asparagus Tempura For this and many more of these recipes,…
Water Management Is Key
…saw between California and Florida citrus production. He also discusses issues of importance to California citrus growers, including water availability, irrigation management, freeze protection and more. Water Management is Key…
Nigiri Project Mixes Salmon and Rice Fields
…and rice, the research is a collaborative project among the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences, the California Department of Water Resources and nonprofit organization California Trout. For the first…
Irrigated Lands Regulatory Programs to be Discussed
…“We have seen continuous improvements by farmers and ranchers in protecting water quality and the agricultural sector remains a strong partner in ensuring and promoting a safe drinking water supply”…