Alfalfa fields should be a lush green carpet this time of year, but in many parts of California, fields are scarred with patches of stunted, dead-looking, twisted and deformed plants....
By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff
An ambitious bill to tighten regulations and oversight on financial markets passed the House Agriculture Committee Feb. 12. ...
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Sacramento Valley rice farmer J. T. Thompson said in an interview that he could farm rice without burning straw and even without chemicals....
New boundaries will quarantine plants, flowers, fruits, and vegetables grown in California’s Sonoma and Santa Clara counties due to recent light brown apple moth detections....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You would have to be living in a cave to not know California is in the third year of a severe natural and regulatory drought....
By Dan Bryant
Contributing Writer
Iris yellow spot virus (IYSV), a serious disease of onions in Southern California and the Pacific Northwest, is something San Joaquin Valley growers should be watching for, says Tom Turini, Fresno County farm advisor....
Here is the March 15 California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service in Sacramento, Calif....
By Aaron Kiess
Executive Director
California Alfalfa and Forage Association
The beginning of the year seemed to have little to offer in the way of good news....
Monica Cooper will become the University of California (UC) Cooperative Extension viticulture farm advisor and county director in Napa County effective April 1....
By Hembree Brandon
Farm Press Editorial Staff
I suppose somewhere there is actually someone smart enough to wade through the morass of minutiae in the much ballyhooed and debated 1,100-page economic stimulus package and understand just what’s in it....
President Barack Obama announced his intention to nominate James W. (Jim) Miller to be under secretary of Agriculture for Farm and Foreign Agricultural Services and Dallas P. Tonsager to be under secretary of Agriculture for Rural Development....
Controlling two species of semitropical bugs that damage a variety of fruit and nut crops is the objective of a joint research project between the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and Australian researchers....
The Citrus Research Board (CRB) in conjunction with University of California Cooperative Extension is conducting a 2009 Postharvest Research Seminar for California citrus packers on March 18....
Landowners of areas previously damaged in floods may apply for floodplain easements through USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service. ...
Senate Democrats have unveiled a “rural agenda” for the 111th Congress and a Web site highlighting issues important to rural communities and promoting policies that will benefit rural areas....
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