California Grower News
AgNet News Hour: Tuesday, 05-23-23
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s AgNet News Hour, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show covers the challenge in finding skilled labor even with incentives, promotional investments helping improve ...
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‘Several Things to Overcome’ with Advanced Clean Fleets Regulation
The Advanced Clean Fleets regulation has been approved by the California Air Resources Board. Between 2024 and 2042, commercial trucking fleets of 50 or more vehicles or companies with at ...
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Bill Incentivizes Use of Cover Crops
A new bill would give farmers more incentive to use cover crops. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Senator Sherrod Brown (D-OH) and several state representatives introduced bipartisan ...
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AgNet News Hour: Monday, 05-22-23
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s AgNet News Hour, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show covers upcoming emergency relief for producers, comments from representative LaMalfa at the Forestry and ...
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Chickweed Management Questions Raised by Resistance Concerns
Herbicide resistance within small grain crops has been confirmed for common chickweed. Researchers have found that chickweed populations are demonstrating resistance to ALS-inhibitors. Additionally, chickweed management in alfalfa is also ...
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Mango Industry Seeing Unprecedented Growth
Big growth in the mango industry. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. The mango industry is having record volume of high-quality fruit arriving in the U.S. this year. ...
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AgNet Weekly: Ag Secretary Tom Vilsack
The Biden Administration this week announced the availability of nearly $11 billion in grants and loan opportunities to help rural energy and utility providers. They say the funding will help ...
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Week in Review: Budget Sees Ups and Downs & Recharging Groundwater Basins with Floodwater
California is currently facing a $31.5 billion shortfall after enjoying a $97.5 billion budget surplus last year. Efforts to address floodwater in the Central Valley will include emergency diversions into ...
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Latest Flood-Related Executive Order Expands Diversion Flexibilities
Governor Gavin Newsom has issued another flood-related executive order to address impacts in the Central Valley. Runoff forecasts and flood models indicate that flood conditions in the area will likely ...
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AgNet News Hour: Friday, 05-19-23
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s AgNet News Hour, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show covers a conversation on minimum wage increases, Truterra paying $9 million to carbon sequestering ...
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SAVE Act to Protect Common Food Names in Export Markets
A bipartisan group of lawmakers introduced the Safeguarding American Value-Added Exports (SAVE) Act this week. The legislation seeks to establish a list of common names for a variety of ag ...
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California’s ‘Lowest Cotton Acreage’ in History Expected This Year
Even with the positive water outlook for growers this year, cotton acreage is taking a big hit. President and CEO of the California Cotton Ginners and Growers Association, Roger Isom ...
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Food Spending Decreased Unevenly Across States in 2020
Trends in food spending across the U.S. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. The COVID-19 pandemic in the United States disrupted the food industry in 2020, according to ...
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Heavy Criticism of House Ag Appropriations Bill to Cut USDA Funding
The U.S. House of Representatives Agriculture Appropriations Subcommittee is receiving significant criticism for its Fiscal Year 2024 agriculture funding bill. A draft of the spending bill outlines significant cuts to ...
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AgNet News Hour: Thursday, 05-18-23
Get the latest agriculture news in today’s AgNet News Hour, hosted by Danielle Leal. Today’s show covers optimism within the almond industry, snowpack runoff concerns with a heatwave at hand, ...
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Growing Matters: BeSure! Campaign Stresses Importance of Pesticide Labels
The BeSure! campaign from the Growing Matters Coalition tells us it’s always a good time to check your pesticide’s label. The coalition says when choosing crop protection tools, both effectiveness and potential ...
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Almond Update: Enthusiasm for 2023 Almond Crop, Despite Lower Forecast
The latest forecast from the U.S. Department of Agriculture projects the 2023 almond crop to be down about three percent from last year. Almond Board of California President and CEO ...
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Socially Disadvantaged Farms Concentrated in South and West
Some areas of the nation are more likely than others to have socially disadvantaged farms. That’s coming up on This Land of Ours. Data from USDA’s Economic Research Service (ERS) ...
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VofV: Farmers are Entrepreneurs, Citi’s Adam Bergman Talks Agtech
Adam Bergman ─ Managing Director, Clean Energy Transition Group and the Global Head of AgTech at Investment Banking, Citi ─ joins Dennis Donohue and Candace Wilson on this week’s episode ...
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Ag Groups Say Secure the Border Act Falls Short of Necessary Labor Reform
The Secure the Border Act of 2023, H.R. 2, was narrowly passed by the U.S. House of Representatives last week. Several provisions have caught the attention of the agricultural industry, ...
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