Corrugated plastic bins like the kind sold for handling mail and packages can be quickly and easily converted into a durable "nursery" for wild bees, according to an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) research entomologist....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a prosperous nation largely made up of family farms is increasingly untenable. ...
Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack named Dave White as chief of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). ...
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Arizona has $1.4 million available for farmers and ranchers to improve air quality by reducing PM10 (dust) and volatile organic compounds (VOCs)....
The risk of Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta island flooding is likely to increase substantially over the next century according to a state report just released. ...
With a hot medium-grain rice seed market in the Mid-South — and the potential that California varieties are being considered to fill a supply gap — Mid-South growers are being warned of several dangers....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
John Deere recently introduced a new 120-foot planter that can seed from 90 to 100 acres per hour. ...
Farmers will now be able to analyze their natural resource use and key crop production inputs using a new online tool introduced at Commodity Classic by Field to Market, The Keystone Alliance for Sustainable Agriculture....
Here is the latest California crop weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office as to March 22....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
When the Obama administration’s fiscal 2010 budget proposals reach Congress, the agricultural portion will likely face a wall of bipartisan opposition....
Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
"Hey, hey let’s be careful out there,” is one of my all-time favorite television lines. It came from the early 1980s television drama series “Hill Street Blues.”...
Proper irrigation can help growers save money, improve quality and yields, and promote sustainability. ...
David Schaad, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in California announced today that producers who did not obtain crop insurance or Non-insured Crop Disaster Assistance Program (NAP) coverage for 2008 can pay a buy-in fee through May 18, 2009, to become eligible for 2008 disaster assistance programs authorized by the Food, Conservation, and Energy Act of 2008....
Determining the host range of fungal pathogens that have potential for use as biological controls of weeds should become easier to do, thanks to a new technique developed by Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientists....
Late winter storms that increased the snowpack to near 90 percent of normal have prompted the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) to increase the 2009 State Water Project (SWP) delivery allocation to 20 percent....
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