Approximately 64 growers, Pest Control Advisors and other stakeholders in the avocado industry recently attended the Avocado Pest Management Round Table grower meeting that was held in Fallbrook on September…
Ag to Take Center Stage in Round Four of NAFTA Talks
…ever watched a boxing match, they circle one another for a while, and I think we’ve been circling.” He says the administration will lay some things on the table in…
Tomato Crop Coming in Lighter than Expected
…the delta, the Sacramento River influences our groundwater table. We’re usually the last part of the state to harvest, and we will be again probably this year. We got into…
GMO-Free Labeling Fear Based
…has labeled its table salt as “GMO-free,” when it could never have been GMO in the first place because salt has no genes to modify. USA Today reports that similar…
National Food Bank Day
…available for some of the 42 million men, women and children who struggle with putting food on the table. Today is National Food Bank Day. Recognized every first Friday of…
Agriculture Looks for Ways to Boost Exports
Agriculture is looking for every way possible to boost farm exports, at a time when other trade avenues seem to be limited or closed. TPP is off the table, the…
Cargill Investing in Clean Meat Startup
…and slaughterhouses. Cell-cultured meats are far from reaching the dinner table, however, as Memphis Meats can make a pound of meat for less than $2,400, down from $18,000 last year….
Renegotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement
The renegotiations for the North American Free Trade Agreement get underway on August 16th. Canada, Mexico, and the United States can sit down at a table to update the twenty-year-old…
Agri View: Goat Meat Demand and Consumption
…is finding its place on the same dinner table. Research is going on at one university on the nutritional value of goat meat. That’s Agri View for today. I’m Everett…
Trucks Carry Majority of NAFTA Freight
…Broadcasting News Service. from Bureau of Transportation Statistics May 2017 North American Freight Numbers View Table Data Source: Bureau of Transportation Statistics, TransBorder Freight Data, https://transborder.bts.gov/programs/international/transborder/ Download Excel Tables U.S.-NAFTA…
U.S. Dairy Increasing Pressure on Canada
…2003. Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue said earlier this month that all options should be on the table and that dairy is still a concern. From the National Association of Farm…
Mid-South Cotton Producers to See San Joaquin Valley Agriculture
…table grape harvesting at the Kirschenmann Farms in Shafter prior to touring Bayer’s research activities at the Shafter Research Station. This season’s other P.I.E. tours will have Southwest producers observing…
Strong Egg Production in May
…comprised of 7.73 billion table eggs and 1.14 billion hatching eggs. Of that figure, 1.06 billion were broiler-type and 77.7 million were egg-type. The total number of layers for the…
Healthy Preparation of Mushrooms
…no significant losses in the nutritional value of the cooked mushrooms. They also gave the ok to add a little olive oil to the grilling process. The results of this…