Following President Donald Trump’s approval to include up to an additional $1 billion in the Farmers to Families Food Box Program, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) has approved up to $1 billion in contracts to support American producers and communities in need through the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program. Earlier this …
With the high likelihood that U.S. pistachio growers will shake a record crop from their trees this fall, American Pistachio Growers (APG) is pulling out all of the stops to keep its wave of marketing success rolling in 2021 and well beyond. APG’s marketing team has just put the final touches on a new advertising campaign that combines extensive television …
The Almond Alliance of California strongly opposes the Proposition 15 “split roll” proposal on the November 3, 2020 ballot. California Proposition 15 is the Tax on Commercial and Industrial Properties for Education and Local Government Funding Initiative. We believe a split roll proposal will hurt the business community as well as employees and consumers, thereby having a negative impact on …
The San Francisco 49ers and Clover Sonoma, a third-generation family-owned and operated dairy, today announced an exclusive …
In what may be a first for science, researchers with the Agricultural Research Service (ARS) have found an example of plant …
The black spots and beautiful colors can be deceiving. At first glance, the Spotted Lanternfly (Lycorma delicatula) is a bea…
Fires have once again ravaged California’s rural agricultural regions, leaving the most vulnerable in those communities with…
China’s raisin production is forecast at 160,000 MT in MY 2020/21, down 20 percent from the previous year as the Covid-19 ou…
With support from the National Institute of Food and Agriculture’s Multistate Research Fund, researchers at 17 land-grant un…
Recent heat waves have caused California’s energy grid to take a beating, which forced the California Independent System Ope…
The false chinch bug (FCB), Nysius raphanus (Hemiptera: Lygaeidae), is a pest of many plants. FCB is a generalist and has be…
In 2019, U.S. peach, nectarine, and cherry exports to Taiwan increased as competitor market share declined. Taiwan’s peach a…
This is not good. You find an avocado tree with sun blotch or it is time to thin the orchard and you remove the offending tr…
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