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Administration farm bill aside, it’s a long trip to river 

Mar 23, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The leadership of America’s cotton industry was in Austin, Texas, when the Bush administration in January rolled out its 2007 farm bill proposal....

Prices, competition to cut ’07 Pima acreage in central Arizona 

Mar 22, 2007,

By Cary Blake
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Pima’s cotton return to significance in Central Arizona with the start of the pink bollworm eradication program there was less than encouraging....

New virus attacks melons, cucumbers, and squash 

Mar 22, 2007,

By Susan McGinley
University of Arizona

A plant virus identified for the first time last fall on Arizona and Sonora (Mexico) melon and squash crops has the potential to cause severe damage on upcoming crops. Cucurbit yellow stunting disorder virus, CYSDV, can infect members of the botanical family Cucurbitaceae, including all types of melons, summer and winter squash, pumpkins, gourds, and cucumbers....

Rio Grande Valley vegetable crops earning top dollar 

Mar 22, 2007,

By Rod Santa Ana III
Texas A&M media specialist

“Through the roof” is how experts are describing the record prices growers in the Rio Grande Valley are getting for their winter vegetable harvests this year....

Kern Pistachios early growth benefit from pre-plant deep ripping? 

Mar 21, 2007,

By Blake Sanden
Irrigation and Agronomy Farm Advisor, UCCE, Kern County, California

Bring on the big iron! We love it. Bring out that gigantic D-9 Cat hooked to a six-foot long slip plow – an 18-inch wide, swept forward two-ton dagger that we bury in the heart of the earth....

Western Growers supports specialty crop farm bill proposal 

Mar 21, 2007

Western Growers has endorsed the Equitable Agriculture Today for a Healthy America Act ("EAT Healthy America Act") introduced in the U.S. House by Reps. Dennis Cardoza (D-Calif.), Kevin McCarty (R-Calif.), Adam Putnam (R-Fla.), John Salazar (D-Colo.), Randy Kuhl (R-N.Y.), and Rick Larsen (D-Wash.)....

Western growers receives grant from state to develop, implement training opportunities for farm workers 

Mar 21, 2007

The California Labor and Workforce Development Agency's Employment Training Panel (ETP) awarded a multiple employer contract of $499,060 to Western Growers to train 650 current employees of its member companies....

Final California grape crush report released 

Mar 20, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

The 2006 California grape crush totaled 3.5 million tons.88,988 tons, down 19 percent from the record 2005 crush of 4.3 million tons....

Bill introduced to conserve America's open spaces and farmland 

Mar 20, 2007

California U.S. Rep. Mike Thompson (D) and Rep. Dave Camp (R-MI) have introduced a bill to help landowners conserve our country's precious agricultural land and open spaces. ...

Marking equipment can reduce thefts 

Mar 20, 2007

Due to the widespread concern for the increase in the number of thefts in California’s rural communities, the Owner Applied Number (OAN) crime prevention program is available to farmers for the identification of farm machinery, equipment and even household goods....

California Rice Commission supports GM rice testing moratorium 

Mar 19, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

Continuing discovery in the mid-South of non-approved genetically modified rice first in rice for shipment overseas last fall and this spring in planting seed has prompted California rice industry to distance itself from the growing problem....

California Pistachio Commission voted out by volume, not votes 

Mar 19, 2007,

By Farm Press Editorial Staff

Despite the fact more than two-thirds of California pistachio growers voted to continue their 26-year-old marketing, research and promotion organization, the California Pistachio Commission is going out of business....

Is a grape by any other name still a grape? 

Mar 19, 2007,

By Peggy Lemaux
UC Berkeley

Grapes may look identical, until you taste them crushed and processed for a glass of wine or cut up in a salad....

California wine grapes sold for bulk market before bottled or bagged 

Mar 15, 2007,

By Harry Cline
Farm Press Editorial Staff

As much as 81 million gallons of wine from California wine grapes grown in 2006 could change hands at least once as a bulk commodity before it is ever packaged for sale to consumers....

Low Arizona surface water supplies likely this spring and summer 

Mar 15, 2007

Warm weather intermingled between a few winter storms moving through Arizona’s high country in February has kept watershed snowpack levels below average and the water supply forecast sparse for spring....

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