San Joaquin Valley cotton growers offered survival strategies for 2009 

Dec 2, 2008,

By Marni Katz
Contributing Writer

Though their numbers may be dwindling, a handful of San Joaquin Valley cotton growers still committed to the crop learned the latest strategies for continuing to produce the fiber crop profitably at a recent University of California Cooperative Extension field day at the West Side Research and Extension Center, Five Points, Calif....

Citrus, avocado and nursery producers can still "buy-in" for 2009 crop year disaster program 

Dec 1, 2008

John Smythe, executive director of USDA’s Farm Service Agency in California reminded nursery producers and citrus and avocado growers that in order to be eligible for certain 2009 disaster programs, producers must pay a “buy-in” fee for those crops that currently do not have a crop insurance policy and the sales closing date was prior to Aug. 14, 2008. ...

New avocado insurance program available 

Dec 1, 2008

California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura encourages avocado growers to participate in a new United States Department of Agriculture crop insurance program....

Food industry launches new round of attacks on ethanol subsidies 

Dec 1, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

A broad coalition of food industry, environmental and other “grassroot” organizations are calling on President-elect Barack Obama and Congress to enact legislation phasing out subsidies for ethanol production....

Lundberg Family Farms named California Workplace of the Year 

Dec 1, 2008

An emphasis on wellness programs, including an employee garden, health screenings, free fruit and vegetables, and free flu shots are among the reasons The Employer Resource Institute honored Lundberg Family Farms as the California Workplace of the Year for the second consecutive year....

Spinach downy mildew: New race found in 2008 

Nov 26, 2008,

By Steven Koike
University of California Cooperative Extension
and Jim Correll
University of Arkansas

Based on preliminary research findings, it appears that yet another new race of downy mildew has occurred on spinach grown in coastal California....

Field crop meeting set for Tuesday, Dec.16  

Nov 26, 2008

Tulare County Agricultural Building, 4437 S. Laspina St., Tulare...

Sweet cherry growers encouraged to attend insurance workshops in Central Valley 

Nov 26, 2008

California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura encourages growers to attend one of a several USDA workshops on a new crop insurance program for sweet cherries....

Fetzer honored for environmental, economic leadership 

Nov 26, 2008

Fetzer Vineyards has been honored a second time by California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger by earning a 2008 Governor’s Environmental & Economic Leadership Award....

USDA puts $5.8 million toward stopping spread of Asian citrus psyllid in California 

Nov 25, 2008

Agriculture Secretary Ed Schafer announced the commitment of $5.8 million in funding to stop the spread of Asian citrus psyllid in California....

CDFA Secretary Kawamura applauds announcement of $5.8 million to fight Asian citrus psyllid 

Nov 25, 2008

California Department of Food and Agriculture Secretary A.G. Kawamura has issued the following statement regarding the United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) announcement today of $5.8 million to stop the spread of the Asian citrus psyllid in California:...

Non-target insects seem more affected by insecticides than Bt crops 

Nov 25, 2008

Non-target insects are probably affected more by conventional insecticides than by crops that contain genes from the soil bacterium Bacillus thuringiensis (Bt), according to the findings of a study by Agricultural Research Service scientists and cooperators. ...

New University of California ag vice president promising big changes 

Nov 24, 2008,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Putting a deadline-driven advocate attorney in charge of 1,100 University of California academicians and scientists could be like mixing gasoline and fire....

California Asparagus Day set for Dec. 3 

Nov 24, 2008

Where: Robert J. Cabral Agricultural Center...

Harkin bill would put light on ‘financial weapons of mass destruction’ 

Nov 24, 2008,

By Forrest Laws
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Iowa Sen. Tom Harkin has introduced legislation aimed at establishing stronger standards of openness, transparency and integrity in the trading of swaps and other over-the-counter financial derivatives that have helped bring the nation to the brink of the worst recession in decades....

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