By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
White-knuckles are proof of the wild roller coaster ride for growers and pest control advisers (PCAs) this fall in low desert cole crop fields with the first-time appearance of the Bagrada bug, Bagrada hilaris....
By Richard Cornett, Communications Director, Western Plant Health Association
One of the most important jobs a communications director has is correcting the media when it goes astray. ...
California Almond industry members will be presented with recent research findings and trade developments addressing the most pressing issues they face in growing, processing and marketing the state's premier specialty crop at the 37th Annual Almond Industry Conference, to be held Dec. 9-10, in Modesto....
During a keynote address given Oct. 29, 2009, at the National Press Club, Anne Castle announced that a U.S. Geological Survey report, Summary of Estimated Water Use in the United States in 2005, states that Americans used 410 billion gallons of water per day; slightly less than what was consumed in 2000. ...
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Western farmers and ranchers are voicing opinions on an overabundance of issues that directly and indirectly impact agriculture during fall annual meetings for agricultural associations....
Growers in the eight-county San Joaquin Valley Air Pollution Control District have until January 2010, to replace older, high-polluting, Tier 0 diesel engines greater than 50 hp with EPA-certified Tier 3 or Tier 4 engines. ...
The following is the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s California crop production report for November....
Arizona’s all cotton production on Nov. 1 is forecast at 422,700 bales, unchanged from the Oct. 1 forecast and 4 percent above the final 2008 production, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Phoenix, Ariz., field office....
By Gabriele Ludwig, Director of Regulatory and Technical Affairs, Almond Board of California
Health care has dominated the national debate in recent months, but as a resolution appears near, climate change is likely to again take center stage. ...
With projected 25-percent and 50-percent increases in U.S. and world populations, respectively, by 2050, substantial increases in freshwater use for food, fiber, and fuel production, as well as municipal and residential consumption, are inevitable....
The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
The latest Arizona agriculture update from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Phoenix, Ariz., field office:...
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Public hearings always amaze and amuse in how issues can be so widely (and wildly) interpreted....
By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The first thought that runs through your mind when you watch Bill Gates speaking at the World Food Prize’s Norman Borlaug Dialogue is “How strange is this?”...
Food safety audits of California’s leafy green growers increased substantially last year, according to an annual report from the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA)....
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