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Less water efficient farm acreage good fit for sub-surface drip 

Apr 26, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A winter snowcap adorned the massive peak of Mt. Graham near Safford, Ariz. in early April as a dozen agricultural folks excitedly scampered at ground level on a 40-acre parcel of land below....

Superabsorbent amendment developed by USDA increases yields 

Apr 26, 2007,

By Linda Romander

Work that began in 1984 at the USDA-ARS National Center for Agricultural Utilization Research in Peoria, Ill., is now coming to fruition in California’s processing tomato fields in the form of a cornstarch-based superabsorbent soil amendment called Zeba....

Growing like a weed’ has a different meaning for farmers 

Apr 26, 2007,

By Richard Cornett
Director of Communications, Western Plant Health Association

Around the first day of spring I scanned an open field in Sacramento and couldn’t help but notice the many wildflowers that were in full bloom. The landscape was just teeming with a wide array of bright colors. ...

Tulare County farmer joins fight to restore Roundup Ready alfalfa seed sales 

Apr 25, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Prominent Tulare County, Calif. farmer and dairyman Mark Watte has become an intervening party in the lawsuit filed by radical environmentalists who have been successful in temporarily halting the sale of Roundup Ready alfalfa seed....

Western Farm Press, Chemtura launch grape e-newsletter 

Apr 25, 2007

Bud dissection to evaluate the ’07 crop, the impact of chilling hours on this year’s crop and the impact of recent rainy weather and unseasonable heat on powdery mildew development are just three of the topics covered in a new electronic newsletter for the California grape industry....

Farming, lending was simpler in the old days 

Apr 25, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

I was looking through my Dad’s papers and came across the promissory note for a crop loan in March 1951. The loan, for $800, was secured by the cotton to be grown on 22.5 acres and by six cows, four heifer calves, two mules and a 1950 Chevrolet pickup truck. ...

Senate turns back bid to strip disaster funding 

Apr 24, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Senate leaders turned back an effort to strip more than $4 billion in disaster assistance funding from a$122-billion emergency supplemental appropriations bill that will provide $96 billion to continue the wars in Iraq and Afghanistan....

Blame it on biotech mosquito bites 

Apr 24, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The injunction halting the sale of Roundup Ready alfalfa is one of the most ludicrous and wasteful uses of the court system yet. It has nothing to do with protecting the environment. Northern Federal District Court Judge Charles said so in the preliminary injunction to stop biotech alfalfa seed sales: “Roundup Ready alfalfa does not have any harmful effects on humans or livestock.”...

California sugar beets 

Apr 24, 2007

California sugar beet producers have planted or intend to plant almost 40,000 acres this season, down 9 percent from the 2006 crop year....

Leafy greens agreement marks California food safety upgrade 

Apr 23, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

While California agriculture just might have the nation’s most stringent food production standards already in place, the industry recently ratcheted its food quality controls up a notch with the April 1 implementation of the voluntary leafy greens marketing agreement. ...

California potato acreage down 

Apr 23, 2007

California’s 2007 winter potato production forecast is 2.47 million cwt., 21 percent below a year ago. The area for harvest, at 11,500 acres, is 4 percent below last year. The average yield of 215 cwt. per acre is down 45 cwt. below a year ago. ...

California rice acreage up slightly 

Apr 23, 2007

California rice farmers intend to plant 532,000 acres of rice this season, just 1 percent more than the 526,000 acres in 2006....

Headlines Western 

Apr 23, 2007

California corn taking acreage from other crops 

Apr 20, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

To no one’s surprise, California producers are following those in the rest of the U.S. and planting more corn this spring – apparently at least partly at the expense of cotton and other spring-seeded crops....

Citrus salvaging continues 

Apr 20, 2007

Damage assessment of California citrus fruit continue with growers and packers salvaging fruit that survived the January freeze, according to USDA/NASS....

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