By Aaron Kiess
Executive Director
California Alfalfa & Forage Association
CAFA’s 24-page booklet, “Alfalfa, Wildlife and the Environment”, is a valuable resource that has been an educational tool and an authoritative information source for defending California’s largest acreage crop. ...
Farmers’ Rice Cooperative, with support from the California Rice Commission, recently hosted U.S. Department of Agriculture Deputy Secretary Kathleen Merrigan for a tour of California rice....
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that the USDA is distributing $176 million in Recovery Act funding to upgrade laboratory buildings and support facilities at research locations across the country. ...
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The latest fish-saving biological opinion from the National Marine Fisheries Service reaches far beyond the infamous Delta pumps where most of the focus lately has been in the “save the minnow (smelt)” melodrama....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The first successful attempt to drill for oil in the U.S. almost didn’t happen. According to Pulitzer-Prize winning author Daniel Yergin, the small band of drillers who accomplished the feat had already been instructed to suspend operations when they struck oil on Aug. 27, 1859....
By Dan Bryant
Contributing Writer
Biofuels policy may sustain high feed prices, farm subsidies will remain but with more pressure on efficiency, and environmental regulations will persist and strengthen....
The House Energy and Commerce Committee approved by voice vote the Food Safety Enhancement Act (H.R. 2749), legislation that would give the Food and Drug Administration (FDA) broader regulatory and enforcement authority to keep the nation’s domestic and imported food supply safe....
The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will convene a meeting to discuss statewide drought impacts on Wednesday, June 24, 2009. ...
By Joe Connell
UC Farm Advisor, Butte County
This year is shaping up to be a bad one for the expression of Non-infectious bud failure (BF) symptoms. ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A Purdue University scientist who was born in a one-roomed thatched hut in Ethiopia and went on to become one of the world’s leading experts on sorghum has been named the recipient of the 2009 World Food Prize....
After spending months on the sidelines, investors are starting to return to the nation's agriculture land as a home for their investment dollars....
New data released by the federal government shows consumers are paying less for groceries than they were just six months ago. ...
A native of Montevideo, Uruguay, Mario Moratorio brought a unique international perspective to a wide-ranging 25-year agricultural research and teaching career with the University of California. He will retire June 29....
The San Luis and Delta-Mendota Water Authority has filed suit in federal court over the issuance of a biological opinion by the National Marine Fisheries Service (NMFS). ...
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Food, Conservation and Energy Act of 2008 received more than 80 votes when it passed the U.S. Senate not once but three times after Congress voted to override then-President Bush’s two vetoes....
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