By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Keith Collins, USDA’s chief economist and an agricultural policy expert whose career included a stint as the Agriculture Department’s top cotton analyst, has announced his retirement, effective Jan. 3. ...
Representatives of more than 30 companies from a broad cross section of the produce supply chain including retailers, foodservice buyers and produce suppliers have been appointed to serve on the steering committee of the Produce Traceability Initiative, an industry-led effort to enhance traceability throughout the supply chain. The initiative’s sponsor associations also announced today that the steering committee will be chaired by Cathy Green, chief operating officer of Food Lion, LLC....
By Joanne Littlefield
University of Arizona
For the second year in a row, a national ranking index has placed the University of Arizona College of Agriculture and Life Sciences (CALS) first overall in faculty productivity in the agricultural sciences....
Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner appointed six producer and six handler members to serve on the National Watermelon Promotion Board....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farm organizations are calling on the Senate to follow the lead of the House and pass the U.S.-Peru Trade Promotion Agreement in December. But a major manufacturing group claims the PTPA is a waste of time and a diversion from more pressing issues....
New in 2008, World Ag Expo is selecting the Top Five New Dairy Products exhibited at the Expo. The 2008 Top Five New Dairy Products will be unveiled during Media Day on Feb. 11, preceding the opening of the Expo Feb. 12. The 2008 Top Five were chosen by committee as the newest, most innovative dairy products to be displayed at the Expo, Feb. 12-14....
By Daryll E. Ray
Contributing Writer
Many of the current spate of articles reporting on the Senate’s struggles to put together a farm bill talk about the potential—or lack thereof—for radical reforms that would turn away from the farm programs we have had since the 1930s. ...
Syrah has become a popular wine grape variety in California in the past decade. Currently, there are approximately 19,000 acres planted to the variety in the state. Bearing acreage has increased dramatically from 1996 when there was only 931 acres in that category....
Small-scale growers of specialty crops are invited to attend the 2007 Specialty Crops Conference, hosted by the UC Small Farm Program. Information about new markets, new tools and new crops will be presented at the event, Dec. 12 at UC Davis....
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton producers are well on their way to producing the highest-yielding crop in history. In USDA’s crop production report and world supply and demand estimates, projected U.S. cotton yields of 859 pounds per acre would surpass the previous record of 855 pounds set in 2004. Record yields were also projected for rice producers. Here’s more:...
Santa Claus did not come early for California Department of Water Resources (DWR) water contractors....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Senate Agriculture Committee leaders are urging farmers to contact their organizations and ask them to pressure senators to stop delaying consideration of the committee-passed version of the 2007 farm bill....
Traditional wheats, grown by village farmers on the other side of the world, could hold genes that resist attack by stem rust. Killer races of that formidable fungal disease pose a threat to America's wheat, according to Agricultural Research Service (ARS) plant pathologist J. Michael Bonman....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Overall, Western agriculture is finishing up a good year with strong commodity prices in most crops. However, there are segments of highly diversified California and Arizona farming that are struggling. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Congress could still complete work on a new farm bill in January if the Senate can quickly resolve its amendment issues when it returns from the Thanksgiving recess, the chairman of the House Agriculture Committee said. ...
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