Feeding at the public trough — confession time 

Aug 18, 2009,

By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff

I have been to the public trough and partaken. Not just a sip. It was a Big Gulp....

HLB pressures citrus industry 

Aug 18, 2009

Americans may find a glass of their favorite breakfast staple, orange juice, hard to come by in the next few years if a certain bacteria has its way. ...

Climate change article provokes strong response 

Aug 18, 2009,

By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

If you doubted global warming is a controversial issue all you had to do was look at the comments on the recent article in this space, “Climate change must be addressed” (Western Farm Press, July 18, 2009, http://westernfarmpress.com/news/laws-column-0724/index.html)....

California red scale seminar Aug. 26 

Aug 18, 2009

California citrus growers and pest control advisers (PCAs) can gain the latest information on monitoring and managing California red scale in citrus during an Aug. 26 seminar in Shafter, Calif....

Texas Tech licenses cotton technology 

Aug 18, 2009

Texas Tech University System Office of Technology Commercialization and Bayer CropScience have signed an exclusive licensing agreement to utilize a new cotton technology from the university’s International Center for Excellence in Agricultural Genomics and Biotechnology....

USDA implements storage loan program 

Aug 18, 2009

Farmers may begin applying for Farm Storage Facility loans for corn, grain sorghum, rice soybeans and other crops following USDA’s implementation of the changes required by the 2008 farm bill for the program....

EPA showing bias against ethanol? 

Aug 17, 2009,

By Forrest Laws, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Is the Environmental Protection Agency deliberately trying to “stack the deck” against ethanol and other biofuels?...

Arizona upland cotton forecast up 4 percent 

Aug 17, 2009

Arizona’s upland cotton harvested acreage is estimated at 139,000 acres, up 6,000 acres or 5 percent from a year ago, according to the Arizona Field Office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service....

Olive crop down for second year 

Aug 13, 2009

The 2009 California olive crop forecast is 50,000 tons, down 25 percent from last year’s crop of 66,800 tons, according to the USDA/NASS. ...

Wine grape crop forecast unchanged 

Aug 13, 2009

Wine-type variety grape production for California is forecast at 3.30 million tons, unchanged from the July forecast and up 8 percent from the 2008 crop, according to USDA/NASS California field office. ...

California crop updates 

Aug 13, 2009

California's 2009 apple crop forecast is 165,000 thousand tons, down 8 percent from 2008, according to the USDA/NASS California field office....

Production costs of sudan and sorghum 

Aug 13, 2009

New UC studies showing the costs of producing sudan silage, sudan hay, sorghum silage, and sorghum for grain are now available....

Record corn supply approaches 

Aug 13, 2009

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) predicted that American farmers would produce the second largest corn crop in U.S. history, falling just short of 13 billion bushels. ...

Raisin grape crop forecast 2.1 million tons 

Aug 13, 2009

The California raisin type variety grape forecast is 2.1 million tons, unchanged from the July forecast, according to the USDA/NASS California field office....

New fruit pest in California crops 

Aug 13, 2009,

By Mark Bolda, UCCE - Santa Cruz County

The recent infestation of local crops by the spotted wing drosophila, Drosophila suzukii, is serious....

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