In just a little more than three months until the 41st annual World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif. at the International Agri-Center....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The Senate Committee on Agriculture, Nutrition and Forestry voted unanimously to report a farm bill that includes a new average crop revenue or ACR option for row crop producers and greatly expanded conservation, energy and nutrition programs....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
California and Arizona cotton is like the heralded triple threat baseball player with a threat now missing....
Wildfires that swept through Southern California this week affected the state's largest avocado growing region, but the California avocado crop remains intact, according to the California Avocado Commission....
Dr. A. Charles Crabb has been chosen as director of education for the California Agricultural Leadership Foundation. He most recently served as manager of the California Farm Bureau Federation’s governmental affairs division and is the former dean of agriculture at California State University, Chico....
The Almond Board of California is hosting a panel of experts to discuss water availability issues facing the Central Valley. Recent court decisions related to protecting the endangered Delta Smelt in the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta and restoring salmon to the San Joaquin River — coupled with drought and population growth in California — are putting unprecedented strain on the future availability of agricultural water....
Interior Secretary Dirk Kempthorne and Acting Agriculture Secretary Chuck Conner today announced that additional Incident Management Teams are en route to Southern California to assist with containing the rapidly spreading wildfires. These teams are comprised of specialists from eight state and federal agencies who routinely work together in responding to disaster and wildfire emergencies....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
A Darth Vader-type villain for the melon industry is back this fall with a vengeance – and his lightsaber is attacking desert-grown cucurbits in California, Arizona, and Mexico....
By Dan Bryant
Contributing Writer
The first thing to consider in selecting an alfalfa variety is yield, but it’s not the only thing, says University of California (UC), Davis, Extension Agronomist Dan Putnam....
The hotel reservation cutoff date – as well as the deadline to register to win one of three great prizes – for the 2007 Central Coast Cotton Conference is Nov. 1. The meeting will be held Nov. 27-29, 2007 at the Monterey Plaza Hotel & Spa in Monterey, Calif. Conference organizers say anyone planning to attend to the conference needs to make their hotel reservations by the cutoff date to ensure they stay at the conference hotel and receive the discounted room rates....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sen. Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, went to a lot of trouble to find additional funding for conservation programs, such as his own Conservation Stewardship Program, in the 2007 farm bill he was scheduled to present to the Senate Agriculture Committee today....
The Bureau of Reclamation and California Department of Water Resources (DWR) are planning corrective actions to strengthen B.F. Sisk Dam to reduce the risk of earthquake damage based on recent dam safety evaluations. The dam, also known as San Luis Dam, is located between Los Banos and Gilroy, Calif., along Pacheco Pass. It creates San Luis Reservoir, which serves as an off-stream reservoir for the Federal Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project. ...
Scientists have discovered a beneficial wasp in southern California that attacks a highly invasive weed, saving the federal government time and money that would have been spent to import the insect from Europe....
The Bureau of Reclamation began levee repair work at Prospect Island on October 4, 2007. A contract was awarded to DD-M Crane and Rigging of Alameda, Calif., to construct the repairs, which will include closing two levee breaks on federal property, repairing about 600 feet of side-slope damage on one of the levees, unwatering the federal property, and repairing bank erosion damage to private property adjacent to one of the breaks. The work is expected to take about 2.5 months to complete, and access to the federal property will remain closed during this time....
For the first time, the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Fertilizer Research and Education Program (FREP) teams up with the Western Plant Health Association to present “Fresh Approaches to Fertilizing Techniques,” a conference to be held Nov. 27-28, at the Heritage Complex of the International Agri-Center in Tulare, Calif....
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