Huanglongbing (HLB) pre-screening through analyzing plant metabolism holds potential to be a relatively inexpensive option for growers. Caroline Slupsky, professor in the Department of Nutrition and Food Science and the…
Food and Ag Science Will Shape Our Future
…farmers with data they can use to manage their crops. With REE support, Cornell University scientists are providing corn growers with low-cost soil assessment and greenhouse accounting tools and that…
Scientists Work to Define Threat from Palm Pest
…“One of the first things date palm growers should be doing is getting informed about the situation,” said Mark Hoddle, an entomologist at the University of California, Riverside. “The second…
USDA Expands Working-Lands Conservation Opportunities through CRP
…for this CRP working-lands conservation program. These offers are predominantly larger acreage ranchland in Western states. The new practice for small-scale livestock grazers aims, in part, to encourage greater diversity…
Pesticide Conversations Already Happening with Schools
…growers had already been having pesticide conversations with nearby schools and the only change would be putting this system online. Once growers were shown how to use the system, Arroyo…
CCGGA Opposes Air Resources Board Freight Facility Survey for 2017
…has been an extreme concern of the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations (CCGGA) as the loose term of freight facility and warehouse/distribution center could include cotton ginning operations among…
CCGGA Hosts Congressional Staff
Kristina Dunklin discussing the FSMA Rule with Wayne Gilbert. The California Cotton Ginners and Growers Associations (CCGGA) hosted Kristina Dunklin, Legislative Director for Congressman David Valadao (21st Congressional District), Jilian…
Higher Dose of Vitamin D May Benefit Pregnant Women
…findings were published in the November 2016 issue of The Journal of Nutrition. The research team included Charles Stephensen, with the USDA-Agricultural Research Service (ARS) Western Human Nutrition Research Center…
Food and Forestry Research and Development Projects
…higher altitudes that are inaccessible from wind towers that most small farmers can currently afford. Grafted Growers, LLC, in Tucson, Ariz, will improve crop production methods and strategies and promote…
Western View: Finally it’s Done
…of law, not of men; and we’ve elected lots of characters to the presidency, and some how we survived. I’m Len Wilcox and that’s the Western View from AgNet West….
GMO Article Paints Incomplete Picture
…cultivation in the United States and Canada as compared to Western Europe. ASA President and Greenwood, Del., soybean farmer Richard Wilkins noted in a statement that dialogue on the issue…
UC Releases New Cost Study for Growing Almonds
…is based on a hypothetical farm operation of a well-managed orchard, using practices common to the region. Growers, UC ANR Cooperative Extension farm advisors and other agricultural associates provided input…
New Rangeland Fire Science Plan
…the imperiled ‘sagebrush sea,’ a roughly 500,000-square-mile-area of sagebrush steppe habitat across western North America. The science plan identifies 37 priority science needs that address knowledge gaps in five topic…
Future of Our Agricultural Community
…scheduling tool for lettuce growers, helps growers schedule irrigation and fertilizer events on a block level basis, as well as archive and manage the information for later reporting requirements. Right…