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. ...
Here is the June 1 California Crop Weather report from the Sacramento field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service....
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....
UC Cooperative Extension, Tulare County
Will trapping OLF adults help determine the level of damage?...
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....
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. ...
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....
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....
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....
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. ...
Farmers may be able to produce more switchgrass – and thus make cellulosic ethanol production more economically viable – than previously expected....
UC Cooperative Extension, Colusa County
During the seedling stage, rice plants are susceptible to many pest problems. ...
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....
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. ...
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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New CourseHealthy plants have a greater ability to resist soil pathogens and insect damage. This course details how organic acids can enhance plant health. It is accredited for 1 unit in nutrients for CCAs and .5 hours for Arizona licensees. Credit is pending at California Department of Pesticide Regulation
American agriculture exports 20 to 30 percent of its production annually. For specific commodities, the percentage is much higher. When recommending and applying pest management products for crops, license Pest Control Advisers (PCAs) and applicators and farmers must be aware of which products applied are in compliance with Maximum Residue Limits (MRLs) established by foreign customers. This CE course details the MRL issue and why compliance is critical to marketing into world trade.