By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
It won’t come as a surprise to those who grow them, but a recent USDA report reveals the cost of producing vegetables and melons has risen significantly, by about 32 percent from 2004 to 2006....
The California Department of Food and Agriculture's Inspection Services Division is announcing two vacancies on the Feed Inspection Advisory Board. ...
A microscopic biological sensor that detects Salmonella bacteria in lab tests has been developed by an Agricultural Research Service (ARS) scientist and university colleagues. ...
By Paul L. Hollis
Farm Press Editorial Staff
The current fall production area for harvest for the leading fresh-market vegetables in the United States is expected to decline from a year earlier....
The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS) in Arizona will review all applications for the Environmental Quality Incentives Program (EQIP) and Wildlife Habitat Incentives Program (WHIP) received by Jan. 30. ...
The Agriculture Department’s World Agricultural Supply and Demand Estimates (WASDE) places corn used for ethanol production at 3.7 billion bushels, down 300 million bushels from the November estimate....
By Dan Byrant
Contributing Writer
When severely yellowed and stunted lettuce plants showed up in Salinas Valley fields in September of 2006, many growers mistook the damage for spray burn, but laboratory testing showed the cause was impatiens necrotic spot virus (INSV) and opened a new mystery for plant pathologists....
By Carolyn DeBuse
UC Farm Advisor, Solano and Yolo
There are two types of cold damage that can happen to your walnut trees when winter arrives....
Fifteen U.S. rice mills have signed licensing agreements for the “Grown in the USA” logo, USA Rice Federation announced. ...
Research on a mosquito that transmits the West Nile virus won two awards for a University of California, Davis doctoral candidate at the recent Entomological Society of America's 56th annual meeting, held in Reno....
By Cheryl Covert
Plant Introduction and Distribution Manager
Foundation Plant Services, UC Davis
In January 2008, the University of California released five new UC-patented grape rootstock cultivars developed in Dr. Andy Walker’s grape rootstock breeding program in the UC Davis Department of Viticulture and Enology, with the participation of Professor Howard Ferris in the Department of Nematology....
By Mark Lange
President and CEO
National Cotton Council of America
The world cotton market is replete with subsidies across the entire spectrum of producing countries, large or small, developed or developing. ...
Paramount Citrus, Delano, Calif., will be adding 1,000 acres to its 30,000 acres of citrus with the purchase of 1,000 acres in eastern Fresno County, Calif....
By Stephen Vasquez
UCCE Viticulture Farm Advisor
Fresno County and
Matthew Fidelibus
UCCE Viticulture Specialist at UC KAC, Parlier
The relatively warm weather we’ve been having has prompted several grape growers to ask whether the San Joaquin Valley will accumulate enough chilling hours, the number of hours with temperatures below 50 degrees, this winter....
The following is the latest California crop weather update from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento office released on Dec. 8, 2008....
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