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As blooms begins, California farmers protect groves  

Apr 6, 2007

As agricultural officials across the state declare the first citrus bloom period since the January freeze, mandarin growers are stepping up efforts to protect their groves. This time it’s not cold weather they are trying to ward off, it’s honey bees — the second threat this year to the state’s seedless mandarin industry....

Johanns’ farm bill involvement a new stage for agriculture secretaries 

Apr 5, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Rick Lavis has keenly watched five federal farm programs evolve during his life-long career serving the Arizona cotton industry. Never has he seen an Agriculture Secretary embrace such a hands-on approach and a detailed blueprint of what the next farm bill should emulate until now....

Done right, drip is better for germinating lettuce 

Apr 5, 2007,

By Brenda Carol
Freelance Writer

It may be somewhat trickier to pull off, but germinating lettuce with drip irrigation offers certain advantages over sprinklers. ...

No Clearfield 131 in Arkansas in 2007 

Apr 5, 2007,

By David Bennett
Farm Press Editorial Staff

In a continuing effort to purge GM traits from the rice industry, the Arkansas State Plant Board has banned the rice variety Clearfield 131. The measure passed on a 6-5 vote at a March 2 emergency meeting and came after lengthy board deliberation and often emotional testimony from farmers, seedsmen and millers....

Mutant lettuce lines show glyphosate resistance 

Apr 4, 2007,

By Dan Bryant
Freelance Writer

University of California weed scientists have discovered several hundred lines of lettuce germplasm that show moderate resistance to glyphosate herbicide and suggest potential avenues for simpler and more effective weed control....

SJV cotton monitoring program minmized 

Apr 4, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

San Joaquin Valley cotton producers will no longer be required to tag non-approved cotton modules and bales....

Congressman a justifiable pain in river plan 

Apr 4, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Devin Nunes, two-term Republican Congressman from Visalia, Calif., is becoming a real pain over the gun-to-the-head agreement to restore the San Joaquin River for salmon....

Pacific Ethanol escalates California-based ethanol production 

Apr 3, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The ethanol-based national wave toward U.S. energy independence continued flowing through California in March when Sacramento, Calif.-based Pacific Ethanol announced the groundbreaking for two, 50-million-gallon-a-year ethanol plants in the Golden State....

Super Paradox walnut rootstock may be near 

Apr 3, 2007,

By Joe Grant
UCCE Farm Advisor, San Joaquin County, California

Is there a "Super-Paradox" walnut rootstock? The answer is, "yes" and "no":...

’07 Arizona survey: Upland cotton acreage down, Pima down, corn to increase  

Apr 3, 2007

Upland cotton acreage in Arizona is expected to total 180,000 acres in 2007, a decrease of 10,000 acres or 5.5 percent, according to the results of a planting intentions survey conducted by the USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS), Arizona Field Office. ...

Lettuce tip burn linked to environmental conditions 

Apr 2, 2007,

By Brenda Carol
Freelance Writer

The importance of calcium, as it relates to physiological disorders such as tip burn in lettuce, is fairly well recognized. ...

‘Taxpayer’ group’s rhetoric inflaming anti-farmer sentiment 

Apr 2, 2007,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

U.S. farmers receive most of their income from the markets, and Congress should eliminate farm subsidies by establishing a low baseline in the Budget Resolution for the Commodity Credit Corp....

Brown rot shrivels prune production in California 

Apr 2, 2007

Brown rot is one of the most economically and ecologically important diseases affecting California’s $100 million prune industry, say plant pathologists with The American Phytopathological Society (APS). ...

U.S. Senate blesses bill earmarking funds for farm freeze, heat relief 

Mar 30, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Federal disaster relief for farmers impacted by freeze and heat-struck crops and livestock in 2006 and 2007 is one step closer to fruition following the U.S. Senate’s passage of a fiscal year ’07 supplemental appropriations bill on March 29. ...

Western Growers applauds new comprehensive immigration reform bill 

Mar 30, 2007

Western Growers hailed the leadership of a bipartisan group of U.S. Representatives who have announced the introduction of the "Security Through Regularized Immigration and a Vibrant Economy Act of 2007," dubbed the STRIVE Act....

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