A new incentive from the NRCS encourages almond and other tree nut growers to reduce dust during harvest. Sabrina Hill has more in this week’s Almond Update. Almond Update –…
Management Tool Lets Growers Get Specific
…Tool Lets Growers Get Specific Cooperative Extension IPM Advisor Pete Goodell is showing growers how the new IPM mobile tool works, and says growers can select the specific materials they…
Robotic Sorting Powered by Color-Sensing Camera
…gaining popularity due to the flexibility of the machine. Robotic Sorter Bratney field service manager for northern California, Eric Pflueger, says almond growers can use the color detection technology to…
Ag Seeks Silicon Valley’s Help to Satisfy World Food Demand
…a new effort on the part of the agriculture industry to attract technology companies to the Salinas Valley. Last month, the Western Growers Association — a trade association representing local…
Pistachio Day Draws Large Crowd, Again
…day of information and attendees heard about a variety of topics. Cooperative Extension Specialist Dr. David Goldhamer told growers how the future of irrigation in pistachios will rely heavily on…
Decline in U.S. Wheat Acres Continues
Wheat growers continue to grow less and less of that crop as they continue to get less and less money for it. Gary Crawford has this report. Decline in U.S….
A Brief History of the Navel Orange in California – From the Sacramento Bee
…in Brazil in the 1930s. A goodwill gesture by U.S. growers sent an offspring of the Tibbets’ parent navel orange to Brazilian growers, which provided cuttings that replenished Brazilian orchards….
Friends of the California State Fair Offer Students Money
…the California Exposition & State Fair and the California State Fair Agricultural Advisory Council. Major yearly contributors to the fund include Ironstone Concours d’Elegance Foundation, Blue Diamond Growers, Western Fairs…
Determining Early Detection Threshold for HLB
Early detection methods for huanglongbing (HLB) infected trees are a possibility but the methods aren’t 100% accurate. How much inaccuracy are growers willing to take? Early Detection Threshold UC Davis…
NCGA Priority and Policy Conference Yields Insight into Top Issues
The National Corn Growers Association’s annual Priority and Policy Conference, held last week in St. Louis, brought together a wide array of stakeholders for discussions on the direction of the…
Communications Now Could Ease Future Port Issues
…surety that you are going to avoid it, but at least there would be a dialogue there and they’d have a better understanding of the industry, how growers and producers…
Sanitation Key for NOW, No Matter the Nut
…Sanitation Key for NOW Walnut growers can take advice from almond growers when it comes to NOW management. “We know now that it is becoming an increasing problem in walnuts,…
Mealybug Species a Rising Concern for Growers
Courtesy: UC IPM A mealybug species and its reproductive characteristics is a rising concern for grape producers in California. Rising Concern for Growers Grape growers are starting to shift their…
UC Online Tool Delivers In-Field Information
Dr. Pete Goodell Showing attendees tool Attendees using tool Experts walked California growers and pest control advisers (PCAs) through a new online tool that can help them make in-field decisions…