Sivanto Prime applications are proving to be effective for growers in combatting pest pressures in multiple different crops. Farmers have been able to gain control of sugarcane aphid in sorghum…
Farm City Newsday Thursday, 03-19-20
…the incentives offered to almond growers for upgrades and orchard recycling, and how the COVID-19 pandemic could impact the agriculture labor supply. Tune in to the show for these news…
Almond Update: Incentives Help Pay for Upgrades, Orchard Recycling
…Quality Initiative (NAQI), which can help growers replace high polluting engines in certain counties. ABC’s Principle Analyst Jesse Roseman said the second is the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Healthy…
Almond Matters: Uniformity Compensates for Short Bloom Period
…growers. While the dry conditions provided a good opportunity for bees to work in the orchards, Machado noted that some growers began irrigating to just provide some moisture during the…
The Western View: Covid-19 Turns Our World Upside Down
…do and nothing will keep them from doing it. I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the Western View from AgNet West and Citrus Industry Magazine. The Western View ~ COVID-19 About…
Sorghum Provides Multiple Areas of Value as Dairy Forage
…growers will not push that tolerance to its maximum level. Growing sorghum as a dairy forage can also provide more tonnage for the amount of water used compared to other…
USDA Funds California Efforts to Address Pest Issues
COURTESY: CDFA The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is allocating nearly $13 million to assist California growers with addressing pest pressures. As part of its effort to strengthen the nation’s…
Automated Fertigation Could Be Ideal for Avocado Trees
Spoon-feeding nutrients to trees has been beneficial in trials and could be well suited with avocado production. Citrus growers in Florida trying to cope with huanglongbing disease have found that…
Farm City Newsday Wednesday, 03-11-20
…Ag Order 4.0 is concerning central coast growers, and get the details on the Dairy Quota Suspension Hearing. Tune in to the show for these news stories, recipes, features and…
Value of U.S. Cotton Trust Protocol from a Global Perspective
…initiative not only helps U.S. cotton to be more attractive to international buys, it also encourages growers to implement practices to help improve production. “The farmers, the growers, they will…
The Western View: New Water Rules Spell Disaster
…this. Stop the disaster now and restore our water allotments. I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the Western View from AgNet West and Citrus Industry Magazine. The Western View ~ Water…
Ag Order 4.0 ‘Will Change the Way We Farm’
…riparian buffers along waterways. Not only would those buffers come at significant cost to growers, but it will also conflict with other standards already regulating the distance between vegetative areas…
2020 Almond Festival at the State Capitol Coming Up in May
…areas of the marketplace. Almond processors, growers and other industry groups will have a variety of booths with some featuring an assortment of almond products including almonds, almond cookies, almond…
New FDA Plan for Leafy Greens Food Safety
…certification programs, and collecting that information in a centralized ‘Leafy Green Data Trust.’ The new leafy greens food safety approach will also include meeting with different growers to address issues…