…light of the recent water allocation announcement to California farmers and growers, we are writing to share our concerns and respectfully request that your administration take steps to address this…
FDA: Recent E. coli Outbreaks a ‘Foreseeable Hazard’
…know how important food safety is for our leafy greens growers. Our SLO County and Central Coast ag economy depends on both vegetable and cattle production, and I know we’re…
New Conservation Frameworks to Better Protect Rangelands
…conservation frameworks are meant to address threats such as exotic annual grass invasion and land-use conversion. Over a million acres a year of rangelands in the western United States are…
Produce Working Group Seeks Food Box Program Adjustments
…Program. More than 100 individuals and companies comprise the working group, including the California Farm Bureau Federation and Western Growers. United Fresh had brought together industry stakeholders back in November…
California Avocado Commission Approved in Unusual Vote
…California Avocado Commission faced its last statewide grower referendum to approve the entity, an amendment was also passed that growers who produced less than 10,000 pounds of avocados didn’t have…
Almond Matters: Using Degree-Day Calculator and Traps to Plan Treatments
In today’s Almond Matters, brought to you by Valent, growers have a number of tools available to help guide pest management treatments. Using degree-day calculations in combination with traps can…
Almond Update: New California Pollinator Coalition Launches
…is a great resource in the work we do with growers.” Of course, funding for the effort was a question during the launch. Lewis answered looking at it from a grower’s…
Solano Gold Offers Some Flexibility for California Prune Production
The Solano Gold cultivar can provide some flexibility in production for California prune growers. Manager of the Prune Breeding Program at UC Davis, Sarah Castro explained the Solano Gold cultivar…
MSOB: Endophytes Act as ‘Vaccine’ in Carrot Study
…will be to isolate the most efficient microbes and develop even better products for growers. Listen to the entire episode with Perdue University’s Lori Hoagland. ‘Making Sense of Biologicals’ is…
Western Growers Continues Support for Center for Produce Safety
Western Growers is helping to further the efforts of the Center for Produce Safety (CPS) by donating $1 million as part of the current fundraising campaign. CPS quietly began the…
Tomato Fields with Fusarium Falciforme Needed for Ongoing Survey
…been described as an emerging problem for California growers. “Over the last four years we’ve recovered Fusarium falciforme from nine counties representing most of the major processing tomato producing counties,”…
Ag Groups Largely Support $2 Trillion Infrastructure Package
…neglect have rendered our federal water projects unable to meet the human and environmental needs of the West,” Western Growers President and CEO Dave Puglia said in a press release….
Farm City Newsday Friday, 04-02-21
…groundwater recharge should take precedent in western water projects, and a study showing success for outfitting greenhouses with semi-transparent solar panels. Tune in to the show for these news stories,…
2021 CCGGA Annual Meeting Scheduled for May 12 in Tulare
The 2021 annual meeting of the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association (CCGGA) will be held next month as an in-person event in Tulare. The meeting will take place on…