The price of eggs and chicken continue to rise as the H5N8 strain of Avian Influenza has moved from the West Coast to the Midwest. And the price of Thanksgiving dinner is bound to cost more this year, too. H5N8 hit a few Central California poultry farms earlier this year, with the virus infecting part […]
The downward spiral of California cotton plantings will continue this year, with only 170,000 estimated acres. Roger Isom, president of the California Cotton Growers Association, told members at the association’s 25th annual meeting in Visalia there were three reasons for the lowest total cotton acres planted since the 1920s. “Water, prices and competing crops are […]
Intensive leadership training and a focus on issues affecting California farmers and ranchers lie ahead for the 10 people chosen for the 2015 class of the Leadership Farm Bureau program. The Class of 2015 was formally introduced today during the annual California Farm Bureau Federation Leaders Conference in Sacramento. Leadership Farm Bureau is a leadership-development […]
The March 2014-15 Valencia orange forecast is 20 million cartons. The March 10 National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) forecast was based on the results of the 2014-15 Valencia Orange Objective Measurement (O.M.) Survey, which was conducted from January 16 to February 14, 2015. Estimated fruit set per tree, fruit diameter, trees per acre, bearing acreage, […]
We all benefit from a safe, reliable food supply produced by our very own American family farmers. To celebrate our local agriculture community, Tulare County Farm Bureau’s Young Farmers and Ranchers (YF&R) committee will host their annual Grocery Cart Race on Sunday, March 22 at 7am in Tulare to celebrate National Ag Week, March 16-22. […]
The Tulare-Kings Chapter of the California Women for Agriculture (CWA) is excited to announce it will award 8 livestock project grants in the amount of $300 each to any Tulare or Kings County youth (4-H, FFA, Independent) exhibiting at the 2015 Tulare County Fair or Kings Fair. Grant money may be applied toward the initial […]
Operations at West Coast ports are returning to their normal pace after a contract deal was struck between dockworkers and shippers, but California agricultural exporters say their business won’t be back to normal for quite some time, as they deal with the enormous backlog of shipments that must be cleared at the ports. The International […]
When one looks for what is commonly referred to as a “Market Disruptor” in neighboring Silicon Valley, most would not look to agriculture. Yet agriculture is poised for massive market disruption and World Ag Expo 2015 was the stage to see it. Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (e.g. “drones”), satellite imagery and remote sensing technologies for water, […]
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) now offers the Ag Census Web Maps application, a dynamic online tool that gives users rapid access to Census of Agriculture maps and data about crops and plants, livestock and animals, economics, farms and operators in more than 3,000 counties across the United States. […]
On Friday, December 12, UC’s Lindcove Research & Extension Center will host its annual Citrus Fruit Display Day and Tasting Event, where visitors can sample the more than 100 citrus varieties grown at Lindcove, and participate in a sensory taste test conducted by Cooperative Extension horticulturist Dr. Mary Lu Arpaia and Dr. Dave Obenland. Those […]