By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The world has gone nuts, bonkers, and delirious for California almonds, thanks in part to the Almond Board of California (ABC)....
Arizona durum wheat seedings for 2008 are estimated at 140,000 acres, up 60,000 acres from 2007. Other wheat seedings at 10,000 acres are up 4,000 acres from last year, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service – Arizona Field Office....
As of mid-January, California’s tomato processors indicated they intend to contract 11.8 million tons, 2 percent less processing tomatoes than the 2007 contracted production reported in August 2007....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
As a journalist I attend many meetings, field days, and conferences to gain stories worthy of your valuable reading time, but also to chew the fat with others to learn about evolving agricultural issues. Many times those one-on-ones lead to even more interesting coverage of Western agriculture....
An innovative University of California sustainable agriculture project that looks at the water-cleansing effects of cover crops under reduced tillage practices has been awarded $90,000 by the Kearney Foundation of Soil Science....
Arizona Farm Bureau president Kevin Rogers, Mesa, Ariz., has been appointed to the executive committee of the American Farm Bureau Federation (AFBF), a six-member executive committee representing the largest voluntary agriculture organization in the United States....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
One factor that could bring U.S. cotton acreage back to pre-grain-boom levels – cotton futures prices close to a dollar – could be on the horizon for 2009, according to a cotton analyst speaking at the 2008 Beltwide Cotton Conferences in Nashville....
When UC Davis Entomologist Robbin Thorp begins his annual scientific survey for the critically imperiled Franklin's bumblebee this spring in its narrow distribution range, he fears he may not find it....
California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger’s 2008-2009 budget supports new rules by the Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) to reduce pesticide air emissions that help meet California clean air goals....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Growing vegetables is not exactly a piece of cake, especially considering the damage aphids inflict on lettuce, broccoli, and the like. Yet veggie growers in the desert-growing areas of the Imperial and Yuma valleys in California and Arizona can have their cake and eat it too, if they follow guidelines designed to improve aphid management in vegetables....
Private and tribal landowners in Arizona have an opportunity to apply for technical and financial help to develop and improve wildlife habitat. The Natural Resources Conservation Service in Arizona is accepting applications for the Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program from Jan. 14-25. ...
By Brenda Carol
Contributing Writer
Interest in converting furrow and sprinkler-irrigated cotton to drip systems has increased substantially over the past few years as water availability has become more of an issue....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
California’s almond bearing acreage is expected to mushroom about 22 percent in the next five years, from 615,000 bearing acres in the 2006-2007 crop year to 750,000 bearing acres in 2011. Yet what’s a stinging concern in the side of almond growers is whether adequate and healthy honey bee numbers will be available for crucial pollination every spring....
Growers, processors and researchers of garlic and onions throughout the West will meet in Tulare, Calif., Feb. 11, the day before the World Ag Expo opens there....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Memo to all those groups who say they want to make even more changes to the 2008 farm bill when a House-Senate farm bill conference committee convenes later this month: Forget it....
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