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....
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....
By Brenda Carol
Freelance Writer
It may be somewhat trickier to pull off, but germinating lettuce with drip irrigation offers certain advantages over sprinklers. ...
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....
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....
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....
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....
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....
By Joe Grant
UCCE Farm Advisor, San Joaquin County, California
Is there a "Super-Paradox" walnut rootstock? The answer is, "yes" and "no":...
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. ...
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. ...
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 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). ...
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 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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