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http://www.thepacker.com/fruit-vegetable-news/Sunnyside-Packing-preps-small-growers-on-food-safety-137523543.html?ref=543 An in-house food safety training program at Selma, Calif.-based Sunnyside Packing Co. prepares even its smallest growers for third-party audits. The Sunnyside Agricultural Food Safety Education and Enhancement program — SAFE — launched in late 2010 with an eye … Continue reading →

http://www.sacbee.com/2012/01/18/v-print/4195352/california-farmers-eagerly-await.html mglover@sacbee.com Published Wednesday, Jan. 18, 2012 Rain can’t come soon enough for California farmers and ranchers, who are counting the hours in anticipation of Thursday’s forecast arrival of meaningful showers. A nearly bone-dry fall/early winter season has been accompanied … Continue reading →

http://www.mercedsunstar.com/2012/01/11/2187706/js-west-demonstrates-larger-chicken.html By JOSHUA EMERSON SMITH C J Brantley, sales representative for JS West Milling Company, Modesto, visited Merced High school Wednesday, Jan. 11, 2012 morning and talked about business model, which highlights the relationship between state regulation and private industry. JS … Continue reading →

http://agalert.com/story/?id=3719 By Steve Adler When the clock struck midnight on Dec. 31 to usher in 2012, not everyone was singing “Auld Lang Syne.” Livestock and poultry producers—particularly those in California—were singing goodbye to ethanol subsidies and tariffs. The start of … Continue reading →

http://www.redding.com/news/2012/jan/10/a-wolf-at-the-door-county-talks-options/?print=1 By Ryan Sabalow Tuesday, January 10, 2012 YREKA — Ranchers and Siskiyou County’s supervisors told state and federal wildlife biologists Tuesday they were concerned livestock and the public would be put at risk if a pack of wolves moves … Continue reading →

http://www.nytimes.com/2012/01/08/us/restaurants-used-fryer-oil-attracting-thieves.html?_r=1&scp=2&sq=steven%20yaccino&st=cse Thieves Seek Restaurants’ Used Fryer Oil By STEVEN YACCINO Companies that collect used cooking grease from restaurants across the country have turned to all forms of sleuthing in recent years. Private investigators. Surveillance cameras. Rigged alarms. And still, containers … Continue reading →

http://www.californiareport.org/archive/R201201050850/b Scientists from the University of California are releasting minute, stingerless wasps in Los Angeles to counter the spread of the Asian citrus psyllid, a pest that carries a disease that threatens California’s citrus farmers. UC Riverside entomologist and researcher Mark Hoddle was a … Continue reading →