Western Farm Press News Archive

Lower production, higher prices in 2009-10?

Nov 4, 2009

The International Cotton Advisory Committee is projecting world cotton production will fall 5 percent to 103 million bales in the 2009-2010 marketing year; potentially sending cotton prices 9 percent higher....

Roundup Flex Pima cotton released

Nov 3, 2009,

By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff

Roundup Flex Pima cotton has been released by Monsanto for planting in 2010 in California....

Sustainable practices on campus farm

Nov 3, 2009

A variety of green practices are being implemented on the University Agricultural Laboratory (Campus Farm) at California State University, Fresno to increase sustainability....

Vacancies on Feed, Fertility boards

Nov 3, 2009

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is announcing vacancies on two advisory boards within the Inspection Services Division. ...

Yuma irrigation workshop Nov. 18

Nov 3, 2009

What: Field irrigation workshop and demonstration...

UC Small Farm Program closes

Nov 2, 2009

The University of California will close its statewide Small Farm Program on Dec. 31, in an effort to close a budget shortfall of the UC Division of Agriculture and Natural Resources (ANR), according to Shermain D. Hardesty, director of the program....

Eurofresh set to exit bankruptcy

Nov 2, 2009

Eurofresh Inc., a year-round producer and marketer of greenhouse tomatoes, says the Willcox, Ariz.-based company will exit Chapter 11 bankruptcy protection in late November....

'Reproductive ground plan' for honey bees

Nov 2, 2009,

By Kathy Keatley Garvey, University of California, Davis

The "honey bee reproductive ground plan" hypothesis that originated two decades ago at the University of California, Davis, with bee geneticist Robert E. Page Jr., is drawing international attention....

Research funding for biofuels

Oct 30, 2009,

By Janet Byron, University of California

At least two-thirds of a billion dollars is currently being spent in University of California laboratories systemwide to build better biofuels, a massive effort to help the state achieve its ambitious goal of a 10 percent reduction in greenhouse gases by 2020....

Cotton merchant signs Chinese deal

Oct 30, 2009

Jess Smith & Sons Cotton Co., a 67-year old cotton merchandising firm headquartered in Bakersfield, Calif., has signed a five-year marketing agreement with Luthai Textile Co., Ltd of China, one of the world’s largest manufacturers of high grade yarn, dyed fabrics and top brand shirts....

U.S. wheat stocks climbing

Oct 30, 2009,

By Elton Robinson, Farm Press Editorial Staff

USDA hit U.S. wheat with a major surprise in its Oct. 9 World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates, increasing projected U.S. ending stocks for wheat to 864 million bushels. ...

Protecting plants from heat, drought

Oct 30, 2009,

University of Arizona

A University of Arizona (UA) researcher's work on gene expression could help protect plants from stresses including heat and drought, and even help people survive diseases like cancer....

No HLB in Arizona-found psyllid

Oct 29, 2009,

By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff

The USDA-Agricultural Research Service laboratory in Beltsville, Md., has confirmed the insect found in a sticky trap in San Luis, Ariz., in mid-October was an Asian citrus psyllid (ACP). ...