Remove ‘uncertainty’ from trade with Cuba 

Mar 27, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Farm-state members of Congress are trying once again to force the executive branch of the government to remove barriers to sales of wheat, rice and other U.S. agricultural products to Cuba....

Pest Management Specialist Charles Summers to receive Woodworth Award 

Mar 27, 2009

University of California entomologist Charles Summers whose career spans 39 years in field and vegetable crops pest management is the winner of the prestigious Charles W. Woodworth Award from the Pacific Branch of the Entomological Society of America....

CURES names Ludwig new board chair 

Mar 27, 2009

Gabriele Ludwig, senior environmental manager of global technical and regulatory affairs for the Almond Board of California (ABC), is the new board chair for Coalition for Urban/Rural Environmental Stewardship (CURES)....

Gov. Schwarzenegger receives “Golden Checkmark” award for food safety 

Mar 27, 2009

California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger has received the “Golden Checkmark” award from the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement for his role in developing an innovative food safety program....

Need wild bees? Plastic totes make a superb bee "nursery" 

Mar 26, 2009

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....

Senate Agriculture Committee chief economist offers farm bill post-mortem 

Mar 26, 2009,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Thomas Jefferson’s vision of a prosperous nation largely made up of family farms is increasingly untenable. ...

Agricultural Secretary Vilsack selects Dave White as NRCS chief 

Mar 26, 2009

Agriculture Secretary Thomas J. Vilsack named Dave White as chief of USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS). ...

$1.4 million available to Arizona farmers, ranchers to improve air quality 

Mar 25, 2009

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)....

Substantial Delta flood risk cited by DWR  

Mar 24, 2009

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. ...

Planting California medium-grain rice 

Mar 24, 2009

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....

Proposal may strike fear in the hearts of equipment company execs 

Mar 24, 2009,

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. ...

Online calculator helps growers analyze resource use, sustainability 

Mar 24, 2009

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....

California crop weather report from NASS 

Mar 24, 2009

Here is the latest California crop weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office as to March 22....

Senators say Obama budget would break contract 

Mar 24, 2009,

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....

Take care of yourself during this stressful growing season 

Mar 23, 2009,

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.”...

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