Beet, beans, safflower acreages down 

Jul 12, 2007

California growers have planted and intend to plant 39,500 acres to sugar beets, down 9 percent from last year’s total planted acreage. ...

Farmers question impact of Salton Sea Restoration Alternative Plan on California agriculture  

Jul 11, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Heartbeat…beat…beat. Two California farmers with deep agricultural roots in southeastern California have their fingers firmly on the pulse of a major state proposal designed to revitalize yet shrink the Salton Sea, California’s largest lake, located in Imperial and Riverside counties. ...

Better-tasting produce could yield growers a premium price 

Jul 11, 2007

Consumers place high value on the taste of produce, and many are willing to pay more to get it, but some feel the produce industry fails to deliver, according to new research commissioned by the Newark, Del.-based Produce Marketing Association (PMA)....

Rice acreage up slightly 

Jul 11, 2007

California’s seeded rice acreage is estimated at 522,000 acres, down 1 percent from last year....

Too much water at almond hull split can be costly for a long time 

Jul 10, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Many Americans are damaging their long-term health by eating too many potato chips and too much ice cream and chocolate cake....

Arizona cotton squaring on 90 percent of acreage – 45 percent boll set 

Jul 10, 2007

Squaring is complete on 90 percent of Arizona’s cotton acreage, compared to the five-year average of 85 percent. ...

Cereal grain acreage up sharply 

Jul 10, 2007

California's Durum wheat planted acreage is estimated at 90,000 acres, 29 percent above last year....

California riding 2007 price, yield crests 

Jul 9, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

It will be a record year for California alfalfa hay prices and likely yields when this season is put in the record books, predicts Philip Bowles, chairman of the California Alfalfa and Forage Association (CAFA)....

Agriculture facing another difficult task – reducing fumigant sage 

Jul 9, 2007,

By Richard Cornett
Communications Director, Western Plant Health Association

There is a storm brewing over recent proposals by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation that have earmarked three state regions in an effort to comply with a judge’s order that it abide by a State Implementation Plan to reduce volatile organic compounds (VOCs) from pesticide emissions by 20 percent. In this proposal, DPR would achieve that goal by limiting emissions of soil fumigants....

Oats acreage down 

Jul 9, 2007

Oats apparently were a casualty to corn and alfalfa this year....

AgJobs has pulse while comprehensive immigration reform facing “last rites” 

Jul 6, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The U.S. Senate’s historic death knoll inaction on comprehensive immigration reform may have sent the politically charged issue to the emergency room. Yet immigration reform specific to U.S. agriculture still has a pulse and a chance for passage by year’s end....

California Olive Ranch doubles production capacity  

Jul 6, 2007

California Olive Ranch, Oroville, Calif., expects to double its production capacity this year after signing a long-term agreement with another large, California olive oil producer....

California corn acreage up 29 percent 

Jul 6, 2007

California corn acreage is up 29 percent to an all-time high of 670,000 acres....

SJV water crisis averted—for now 

Jul 5, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Pumps moving water through the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta into Central and Southern California are operating once again and another major water crisis has been averted — for now — on the West Side of the San Joaquin Valley....

UC Davis entomologists target light brown apple moth 

Jul 5, 2007

The light brown apple moth, the ravenous crop-eating Australian pest detected in at least nine California counties since mid-March, "was probably here a very long time prior to its discovery and it's probably far more widespread than currently delineated."...

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