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....
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....
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