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The latest video in the Growing California video series, a partnership with California Grown, is Heritage Harvests, a profile of the Rominger family farm in Yolo County.

California’s drought will deal a severe blow to Central Valley irrigated agriculture and farm communities this year and could cost the industry $1.7 billion and cause more than 14,500 workers to lose their jobs, according to preliminary results of a … Continue reading →

Atwater FFA’s Julie Dailey, Katelyn Baptista, Goldi Vang, Emmanual Avila, and Hans van Warmerdam compete in the Milk Quality and Dairy Products competition during the MJC FFA Field Day competition in March. By Doane Yawger For the first time in … Continue reading →

By Debbie Arrington Wrinkles can be cool – if you’re a prune. Many of us have had a long love affair with our crinkly, locally grown prunes, even if they weren’t considered the coolest fruit in the bunch. But that’s … Continue reading →

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United States Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack has announced more than $1.5 million in funding to expand bio-control efforts to fight Huanglongbing (HLB), also known as citrus greening. This action is the first designation of funds by the Huanglongbing Multi-Agency Coordination … Continue reading →

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By Claire Fleishman With tight budgets and children to feed, recipients of federal nutrition assistance were rarely seen at farmers markets, where the words “affordable” and “fresh” didn’t often mix. That is changing, thanks to a state program that is … Continue reading →

WASHINGTON, May 8, 2014 – Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that USDA is making a historic $78 million investment in local and regional food systems, including food hubs, farmers markets, aggregation and processing facilities, distribution services, and other local … Continue reading →

Susie Federico, an agricultural technician with the California Department of Food and Agriculture, inspects an ant trap filled with Spam canned meat in Santa Ana on Monday in search of an aggressive species of big-headed ant. Although the trap was … Continue reading →