Pacific Ethanol, the leading West Coast-based marketer and producer of ethanol, announced its intention to temporarily suspend operations at its 40-million-gallon-per-year ethanol facility located in Madera, Calif....
The 182-page World Ag Expo official magazine highlights the full array of events, seminars and attractions scheduled for World Ag Expo, www.worldagexpo.com, the world’s largest annual agricultural exhibition Feb. 10-12 at the International Agri-Center at Tulare, Calif....
Ralph Gilkey of Gilkey Five farms was named winner of the free trip to the 2009 Central Coast Cotton Conference (CCCC) courtesy of Western Farm Press magazine. ...
The California Raisin Marketing Board (CRMB), the state marketing order that represents the nearly 3,000 growers of California Raisins, has added three new members to the CRMB team: Gary Schulz as president; Rick O’Fallon as marketing director, and Cookie Fritz as administrative assistant....
Kings County, Calif., dairy farmer Dino Giacomazzi has been presented the Conservation Tillage Farmer Innovator Award for 2009 by the University of California and the U.S. Natural Resources Conservation Service Conservation Tillage Workgroup....
UC Davis scientists are changing their navel orangeworm research direction after a sixth grader showed that the major agricultural pest prefers pistachios over almonds and walnuts....
Sponsored by UC Cooperative Extension, the 2009 Rice Grower Meetings will be held in two locations:...
The California Agricultural Leadership Foundation (CALF) has announced that applications for Class 40 of the California Agricultural Leadership Program are available at www.agleaders.org....
U.S. farmers and their commodity organizations won’t have to spend as much time defending farm programs from claims they’re no longer needed because of high grain prices this year....
For the first time in several quarters, Arizona retail food prices at the supermarket decreased in the fourth quarter of 2008, according to the latest Arizona Farm Bureau Federation Marketbasket Survey. ...
Water resources specialists from the Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) and cooperating partners are reporting that snowpack levels in Arizona’s river basins are well above normal; ranging from 131 percent to 334 percent of average....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
U.S. cotton producers may be taking it on the chin in the World Trade Organization’s Doha Round, but it might be even worse if they didn’t have strong, articulate spokesmen to defend them....
Water has always been an important concern in agriculture. ...
The 38th annual Plant and Soil Conference will be held on Feb. 3 & 4, 2009 at the Piccadilly Inn University in Fresno, Calif....
By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff
For much of 2008, corn, soybean and wheat farmers were on the receiving end of a continuous barrage of bad publicity from a campaign that appeared to be mounted by the Grocery Manufacturers Association....
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