The University of California has established the UC Animal Welfare Advisory Council to review issues of animal welfare related to animal agriculture, and to promote the development of recommendations based on sound science to improve the welfare of livestock and poultry....
Organizations representing the wheat industry in the United States, Canada, and Australia announced May 14 they will work toward the goal of synchronized commercialization of biotech traits in the wheat crop....
The Cotton Forum could provide cotton producers with both a timely getaway from mid-season bugs and heat this season and get them up to speed on the latest cotton fundamentals and marketing opportunities....
By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Arizona agriculture had its day in court on May 18 arguing that state of Arizona funding sweeps of $161,400 in grower assessment funds last spring was unconstitutional....
California’s Department of Water Resources (DWR) has increased this year’s State Water Project (SWP) delivery allocation from 30 percent to 40 percent....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The nation’s food manufacturers are not in danger of running out of sugar despite their claims to the contrary, the American Sugar Alliance said in a letter to Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Monday (May 18)....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
Corn growers want to see a mechanism in which they can sell carbon credits on a regulated market to help offset rising production costs from newly introduced climate change legislation, the president of the National Corn Growers Association says....
USDA has announced a proposed rule for applying the dairy promotion checkoff to imported dairy products, a development many years in the making that has drawn the praise of the National Milk Producers Federation....
The 2009 California peach crop is forecast at 800,000 tons, down 6 percent from 2008 and 16 percent below two years ago, according to the Sacramento, Calif., field office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)....
American Agri-Women invites members of the media and all interested parties to attend their 16th Annual Agricultural Issues Symposium on Monday, June 8, 2009, at the USDA in Washington, D.C....
By Aaron Kiess
Executive Director
California Alfalfa & Forage Association
Until this year the end of March was always an important time for us to see what the USDA’s Prospective Plantings report was forecasting for alfalfa and other forages. Unlike the June report, the March report lumps alfalfa and all other hays together, so it does leave room for speculation as to whether alfalfa acreage has increased or decreased....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
You just received some disturbing news. Plant bugs or soybean aphids or some other pest have been discovered in above-threshold numbers in a cotton, soybean or corn field bordering a lake or stream that meanders through your farm....
Arizona’s 2009 durum wheat production is forecast at 393,750 tons, down 10 percent from the 2008 crop, according to the Arizona office of the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)....
The following is the May 18 California Crop Weather Report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS)....
The American Farm Bureau Federation has selected a group of 10 young agricultural leaders, including one from Arizona, to participate in the fifth class of the Partners in Agricultural Leadership honors program....
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