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  By the Kitchen Sisters and Lisa Morehouse In 1898, the U.S. Department of Agriculture created a special department of men called Agriculture Explorers to travel the globe searching for new food crops to bring back for farmers to grow … Continue reading →

  By Eliza Barclay If you’re a scientist and you work for a pest control company, you’re used to thinking about bugs as the enemy you’re trained to kill. Now try putting one in your mouth. It took some mental … Continue reading →

Alameda County Fair 6/18/2014 to 7/6/2014 Pleasanton, CA El Dorado County Fair 6/12/2014 to 6/15/2014 Placerville, CA Kings Fair 6/12/2014 to 6/15/2014 Hanford, CA Merced County Fair 6/11/2014 to 6/15/2014 Merced, CA Placer County Fair 6/19/2014 to 6/22/2014 Roseville, CA … Continue reading →

By Nick Miller If Sacramento is truly the nation’s farm-to-fork capital, then the state Capitol has an opportunity this week to prove so by putting millions of budget dollars where its mouth is. Here’s what’s at stake: California’s cap-and-trade carbon tax … Continue reading →

By Tamara Lush University of Florida researchers say they’ve found a possible treatment for a disease that’s devastating citrus trees around the state, but caution that it could be years before the cure could become commercially available to growers. The … Continue reading →

By Amina Khan Akif Eskalen steps through the dense, damp leaves in a wooded neighborhood, scrutinizing the branches around him. He’s looking for evidence of an attack: tiny wounds piercing the bark and sap dried around them like bloodstains. The victims … Continue reading →

“California Chrome” With the Belmont Stakes on June 7 and racing’s Triple Crown at stake, Northern Californians are again turning their attention to their very own California Chrome, an 11-foot, 2,500-pound chrome horse outside Safeway at 19th and S streets … Continue reading →

U.S. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack today announced that farmers, ranchers and landowners committed to protecting and conserving environmentally sensitive land may now sign up for the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). The Secretary also announced that retiring farmers enrolled in CRP … Continue reading →

Skechers, a shoe brand, has inked California Chrome, a horse, in a sponsorship deal less than a week before the colt tries to become the first Triple Crown winner in 36 years. According to ESPN’s Darren Rovell, Skechers is attempting … Continue reading →

For the first time in the history of the Governor’s Economic and Leadership Awards (GEELA), the category of Agricultural Ecosystem Services has been added for statewide recognition by the California Environmental Protection Agency. The new category will spotlight the multiple … Continue reading →