The American Farm Bureau Federation has selected a group of 10 young agricultural leaders, including one from Arizona, to participate in the fifth class of the Partners in Agricultural Leadership honors program....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s oldest state Extension Service is drastically scaling back the number of county agents who are on the front lines of providing agricultural information to producers....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Conventional, non-organic agriculture announced that it accounted for 96.5 percent of all food product sales in the U.S. last year....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The U.S. economy stands to lose $5 billion to $9 billion in sales to its foreign competitors over the next two years if Congress does not take steps to help solve the nation’s ongoing agricultural labor shortage....
By Bill Krueger
UC Farm Advisor, Glenn County
Early observations of prune set in the Sacramento Valley look good. Of course, it is a long time before harvest and many things can happen. With a large crop comes the potential for small fruit. Growers should talk with their handler to determine desirable fruit sizes. Most will likely say that they need pitable stock (A and B screen) and that is likely where the best money will be. What can you do to produce good size fruit?...
By Elton Robinson
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. rice production is projected at 224 million hundredweight, 10 percent above 2008-09. U.S. planted area in 2009 is estimated at 3.18 million acres, up 6 percent from 2008. Harvested area is estimated at 3.16 million acres. ...
“You’re not going to be able to jump on the pomegranate bandwagon with your pockets bulging with gold without a lot of hard work,” said Kevin Day, farm advisor with UC Cooperative Extension Tulare County....
Globalization of agriculture production and food will likely mean more regulations on producers and suppliers, said Robert G.F. Spitze, professor emeritus of agricultural and consumer economics at the University of Illinois....
Small grain and alfalfa field days will be held on May 21, at the University of California, Davis, Agronomy/Plant Sciences Field Facility located just outside of Davis, Calif....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
FMC Corp. officials said they strongly disagree with and will file objections to EPA’s decision to revoke all U.S. food tolerances for carbofuran, the active ingredient in the company’s Furadan pesticide....
The dairy industry’s supply management program, Cooperatives Working Together (CWT), has tentatively accepted 388 bids representing 102,898 cows and 2 billion pounds of milk production capacity in the first of a series of herd retirements planned over the next 12 months....
A study conducted by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists and their cooperators has dispelled a belief among some sugar beet growers that different sugar beet varieties require different nitrogen fertilization applications....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sit back and enjoy the ride. That’s basically the advice marketing experts were giving producers this morning now that cotton futures have risen out of the 40s and 50s and into the low 60-cent range....
California egg producers announced on May 11, the formation of the Association of California Egg Farmers (ACEF)....
The California Specialty Crops Council will present the issues critical to the successful trading of U.S. agricultural products during a one and one-half day workshop, June 3-4, in San Francisco, Calif....
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