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SJV grain, alfalfa tours scheduled for next week 

Apr 23, 2008

University of California Cooperative Extension will host three field tours for San Joaquin Valley growers to view the latest small grain and alfalfa variety trials....

Putting high rice prices in perspective 

Apr 23, 2008,

By Betsy Ward
USA Rice President and CEO

With daily news stories about skyrocketing commodity prices creating global concern about food shortages, Americans need to remember the key role that a viable farm safety net has played in maintaining the stable and affordable food supply we all enjoy....

California crop and weather report 

Apr 23, 2008

A ridge of high pressure was passing over California at the start of the week, resulting in dry conditions with above normal temperatures across most of the state....

High-tech makes vegetable transplants worth second look in Salinas Valley 

Apr 22, 2008,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

High-tech planting and cultivating equipment is elevating vegetable transplants as an economic alternative to traditional direct seeding in California’s Salinas Valley....

Chickens coming home to roost: Paying for 35 years of failure 

Apr 22, 2008,

By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff

“Whenever the American people are faced with a clear goal, and they are challenged to meet it, we can do extraordinary things. Today, the challenge is to regain the strength we had earlier in this century — the strength of self-sufficiency.”...

Schafer: Specialty crops, conservation major pillars in 2007 farm bill 

Apr 22, 2008,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

It’s almost a done deal for specialty crop growers; get ready to toast with the orange juice....

Farm bill conference tied up in tax accounting 

Apr 21, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Any momentum towards finishing a farm bill is at a snail’s pace. Even with the impetus of an increasingly frustrated agricultural base, last Friday’s farm bill conference largely focused on the merits of taxes and accounting methods. The meeting did not go well....

Western wheat growers reaping huge benefits of ‘perfect storm’ 

Apr 21, 2008,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As California and Arizona wheat growers go into the home stretch to an early summer harvest of 925,000 acres of 2008 red, white and durum crops, there is an unprecedented economic euphoria similar to winning agriculture’s mega-lottery....

Springtime in the San Joaquin Valley just never gets old 

Apr 21, 2008,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

It has been 33 years since I took my first spring drive through California’s San Joaquin Valley. ...

U.S. barley a major player in Japan, despite limited supplies  

Apr 21, 2008

Japan’s Ministry of Agriculture, Forestry and Fisheries (MAFF) held its second 2008 Simultaneous Buy and Sell (SBS) program for feed barley on Wednesday, April 16, 2008....

UC irrigation meeting April 24 

Apr 18, 2008

The water molecule is quickly becoming the newest California endangered species with rulings last fall limiting water deliveries to protect Delta smelt and now the latest judicial proclamation that the government has not done enough to protect salmon and steelhead....

March crop comments 

Apr 18, 2008

California’s apples, grapes, pears, pomegranates, persimmons, and stone fruit began blooming and leafing out. ...

USDA barter initiative helps feed the hungry 

Apr 18, 2008

Secretary of Agriculture Ed Schafer said today that USDA donations will exceed $100 million in a swap of government surplus raw commodity stocks for domestic and international food through USDA's "Stocks-for-Food" initiative. Internationally, the barter initiative will benefit more than 700,000 children through the McGovern-Dole International Food for Education and Child Nutrition Program....

Wanger fries bigger fish to dismay of water users 

Apr 17, 2008

U.S. District Judge Oliver Wanger found bigger fish to fry and according to the director of the California Department of Water Resources, the Fresno, Calif. jurist’s second fish fry may have the state’s water delivery system “teetering on the bring of collapse.”...

House approves short extension of current farm bill, Senate to follow 

Apr 17, 2008,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The new farm bill’s conference committee met twice Wednesday afternoon and nearly completed a new forestry title. ...

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