USA Rice scholarships available 

Jun 2, 2009

The USA Rice Federation is sponsoring a scholarship contest for high school juniors and seniors from the rice-growing states of Arkansas, California, Louisiana, Mississippi, Missouri, and Texas. ...

Crop Weather report, June 1 

Jun 2, 2009

Here is the June 1 California Crop Weather report from the Sacramento field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service....

Producer survey on government regulations 

Jun 1, 2009

The Center for Agricultural Business (CAB) at California State University, Fresno plans to seek input from California agricultural producers on how government regulations affect their production operations....

Treatment for olive fruit fly 

Jun 1, 2009,

UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare County

Will trapping OLF adults help determine the level of damage?...

Measuring salinity of irrigation water 

Jun 1, 2009,

UC Cooperative Extension, Colusa County

One common measure of water salinity is electrical conductivity (EC). Basically, EC measures the capacity of a solution to transfer an electrical current between two electrodes....

Codling moth control options 

Jun 1, 2009,

Joe Grant, Farm Advisor
and Terry Prichard, Irrigation & Soil Specialist
UCCE, San Joaquin County

The San Joaquin County and Delta Water Quality Coalition — made up of irrigating landowners — is charged with monitoring sub-watershed drainage areas in San Joaquin County and parts of Calaveras and Contra Costa Counties for compliance with surface water pollution laws and regulations. ...

Farm loan total growing 

May 28, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Last fall’s reports of the near-collapse of the banking system notwithstanding, the nation’s farm banks increased their lending to farmers in 2008, according to the ABA Center for Agricultural & Rural Banking’s Farm Bank Performance Report....

Online farm program tools available  

May 28, 2009

David Schaad, acting executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in California announced that new online research and planning tools are now available for farmers and ranchers to assist them in examining how the new 2008 farm bill programs apply to their crops and operations....

Export incentives for dairy products 

May 28, 2009,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has begun implementing provisions of the Dairy Export Incentive Program, partly in response to the reintroduction of direct export subsidies by the European Union earlier this year....

Managing walnut scale 

May 28, 2009,

By Bill Krueger and Janine Hasey
UCCE Glenn and Sutter/Yuba Counties

Walnut scale can be found at significant levels throughout the walnut growing areas in California. ...

Switchgrass proving more productive 

May 28, 2009

Farmers may be able to produce more switchgrass – and thus make cellulosic ethanol production more economically viable – than previously expected....

Monitoring early pests in rice 

May 28, 2009,

UC Cooperative Extension, Colusa County

During the seedling stage, rice plants are susceptible to many pest problems. ...

Bacterial leaf spot in parsley 

May 28, 2009,

By Steven Koike
UC Farm Adisor, Monterey County
and Carolee Bull
USDA-ARS

Beginning at least as early as 2006, a bacterial leaf spot disease of parsley was occasionally observed in California fields. In 2009 the disease is again occurring in growers fields....

Impact of summer heat on OLF 

May 28, 2009,

UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare County

Laboratory, greenhouse, and field cage studies indicate that high summer temperatures in parts of the Central Valley can kill olive fruit fly eggs, first instar larvae and adults. ...

Lundberg Farms receives Stewardship Award  

May 27, 2009

USA Rice Federation President and CEO Betsy Ward today congratulated USA Rice member company Lundberg Family Farms for receiving the 2009 “Agricultural Stewardship Award,” recognizing the company's “excellence in conserving, maintaining and improving our natural resources and environment by using innovative and progressive business practices.” ...

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