By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Farmers are not exactly knocking down the USDA Farm Service Agency doors to sign up for the average crop revenue election, according to members of a panel who spoke at an Ag Issues Forum at the start of the 2009 Commodity Classic....
The estimated value of California’s 2008 field crop production was $4.19 billion dollars, that’s 11 percent above the $3.76 billion dollar value of 2007, according to the National Agricultural Statistic Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office....
USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in California will host a State Technical Advisory Committee (STAC) meeting on March 4, 2009, to continue a public dialogue on priorities and procedures appropriate for implementing conservation programs in the Golden State in 2009....
A new University of California online publication outlines strip-tillage, a management practice with potential to save farmers money in fuel, labor and equipment costs while decreasing the amount of soil disturbed and dust generated as fields are prepared for planting....
2008 was another billion-dollar year for Sunkist, the 11th in the past two decades which includes four freeze years, Sunkist President and CEO Russ Hanlin told more than 500 growers attending Sunkist Growers 115th annual meeting at the Ventura County Fairgrounds....
By Brenda Carol
Contributing Writer
Roundup Ready has been a boon to agriculture in terms of easy, convenient weed control, but the resistance vultures are looming, if not already feeding....
Severe drought has prevented the California Department of Water Resources (DWR) from increasing its State Water Project (SWP) delivery allocation for the first time since 2001. ...
Impacts from the historic statewide drought will be discussed at the California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting on Wednesday, Feb. 25, in Fresno. ...
Here is the Feb. 17, California Fruit and Nut Review from the Sacramento, Calif., office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
Federal and California agencies in March will host a series of statewide public scoping meetings to solicit input and participation from the public, Tribes, and agencies in the environmental review of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP)....
Where: Robert J. Cabral Agricultural Center, 2101 E. Earhart Ave, Delta Room, Stockton, Calif., 95206...
More fertilizer doesn't always mean more profit. ...
By Brenda Carol
Contributing Writer
Lygus was a significant problem in cotton last year, particularly on the West Side of Fresno County....
By Rhonda Smith
Viticulture Advisor, Sonoma County
and Lucia Varela
IPM Advisor, North Coast Region
Vine mealybug (VMB) infestations were first detected in North Coast vineyards in August 2002....
By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Starkly few Californians and Arizonans were at the Beltwide Cotton Conferences this year in San Antonio, Texas, where more than 3,000 cotton producers, consultants, researchers and industry suppliers gathered searching for answers to what happened to their markets and for routes out of one of the bleakest economic periods in U.S. cotton’s history....
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