The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Television attorney Perry Mason would be proud of the crucial testimony and meticulous cross-examination during the USDA-Agricultural Marketing Service’s (AMS) two-day hearing on the proposed National Leafy Green Marketing Agreement (NLGMA)....
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
White-knuckles are proof of the wild roller coaster ride for growers and pest control advisers (PCAs) this fall in low desert cole crop fields with the first-time appearance of the Bagrada bug, Bagrada hilaris....
The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
By Cary Blake, Farm Press Editorial Staff
Public hearings always amaze and amuse in how issues can be so widely (and wildly) interpreted....
Food safety audits of California’s leafy green growers increased substantially last year, according to an annual report from the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement (LGMA)....
The latest California Crop Weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
The latest California crop weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
The latest California crop weather report from the National Agricultural Statistics Service’s Sacramento, Calif., field office:...
By Harry Cline, Farm Press Editorial Staff
The October 3, 2009, issue of Western Farm Press featured an article about a first time tomato grower who yielded an amazing 93-tons per acre, yet faced an uncertain finish to the season due primarily to fallout from California’s largest processing tomato crop in history. ...
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