By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Yuma, Ariz., farmers should exhale a small but short-lived sigh of relief over the news from Union Pacific that the railroad has backed off its initial plans to jointly bid with the Hutchinson Port Authority on a proposed port and rail line at Punta Colonet, Baja Calif., Mexico....
BY Gene Miyao
UCCE Farm Advisor, North California
Bacterial speck can be a major, early-season foliar disease of tomatoes. The pathogen, Pseudomonas syringae pv tomato, favors cool, rainy weather conditions. Disease can develop on young seedlings as well as mature plants....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Planting conditions ranged from normal to a roller coaster ride as the 2007 cotton planting season kicked off for many California and Arizona cotton growers. ...
With warmer weather, drying conditions for hay have been excellent in Califonria, according to the USDA/NASS Califonria Field office....
Chris Christian California Strawberry Commission's new vice president, trade and nutrition. She assumes this senior leadership position to provide administrative oversight, in addition to her existing responsibilities for the trade relations and nutrition department.
The California Association of Winegrape Growers (CAWG) has initiated its first-ever consumer marketing campaign by declaring California’s “independence” as a sovereign wine nation....
President Bush met with leaders from Western Growers and other businesses on June 1 who are supporting the administration’s comprehensive immigration reform plan....
While cotton planting in Arizona is 99 percent finished, cotton squaring is 25 percent complete, according to the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) Arizona Field Office in Phoenix, Ariz.... By Harry Cline Thirty tanker trucks a day have been picking up fertilizer at the new Inland Terminal at Woodland, Calif. and delivering it to Northern California farms....
A newly published report has found that the Farm Credit System continue to increase their support for young and beginning farmers and ranchers - the future of U.S. agriculture -- making $5.5 billion available to young farmers and $9.3 billion for beginning farmers in 2006. ...
One-hundred-eleven California produce handlers are now enrolled in California’s Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement, following an extension of time for enrollments announced in April....
The Department of Water Resources (DWR) has stopped stop pumping at State Water Project (SWP) facilities in the Delta to provide maximum protection for Delta smelt....
California’s tomato processors reported to USDA/NASS they have or will have contracts for 11.8 million tons of processing tomatoes for 2007. This production is 18 percent more than the contracted production of last year. ... By Elton Robinson One huge splash and a couple major waves rippled through the cotton industry Thursday afternoon, May 31, as no less than three companies announced acquisitions involving cotton seed brands....
Most Arizona cotton growers have parked the planters until next spring now that 97 percent of the state’s planting is in the ground, according to May 29 figures from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s (NASS) Arizona Field Office....
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CAWG initates California wine marketing campaign
Jun 5, 2007
President Bush meets with Western Growers, other pro-immigration reform backers
Jun 5, 2007
Cotton squaring complete in 1 of 4 Arizona acres
Jun 5, 2007
New NorCal fertilizer terminal busy with ‘normal’ spring
Jun 4, 2007,
Farm Press Editorial StaffFarm Credit System Institutions make over $9 billion available to beginning farmers
Jun 4, 2007
111 handlers enrolled in California leafy greens marketing agreement
Jun 4, 2007
DWR stops Delta pump to protect smelt
Jun 1, 2007
Processing tomato buyers report 11.8-million tons contracted
Jun 1, 2007
Face of cotton seed industry changing
Jun 1, 2007,
Farm Press Editorial StaffArizona cotton planting inches closer to completion, squaring underway
May 30, 2007
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