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- John Chiu on CDFA Farm to School grant fosters lifelong connections to healthy food for Orange County students
- Micah on Secretary Ross on Water, Workforce, and the Future of California Agriculture — from AgNet West
- CA agriculture value surpasses $60B | Western Livestock Journal on Value of California Ag production tops $60 billion for first time
- Kathy de Contreras on CDFA IT department honored at “Best of California” awards
- El costo económico de las deportaciones masivas ya es visible en California - Espanol News on Nine California Counties Make Top-10 List for Ag Sales in the U.S.
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Tiny stingless wasps helping with Asian citrus psyllids in Kern County – from the Bakersfield Californian
By John Cox, Bakersfield Californian Tiny wasps are here to save the day! In response to a local surge in detections of a pest threatening to wipe out California’s citrus industry, a coalition of researchers and government officials last (month) … Continue reading
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Fire, windstorms and hurricanes – California joins the Midwest and Louisiana with substantial Ag damage from natural disasters
CDFA secretary Karen Ross appears in this story from the PBS program Market to Market. The portion about California wildfire impacts to Ag begins at 4:00.
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Firewood awareness tips from CDFA
With the weather changing and Californians beginning to think more about heating their homes, CDFA is providing a video on the invasive species risk of moving firewood as well as tips from our Division of Measurement Standards for those buying firewood to … Continue reading
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New UC Merced engineering research center to focus on Ag technology
By Lorena Anderson, UC Merced By 2050, the U.S. population is estimated to grow to 400 million, and the world population to 9.1 billion, requiring a 70 percent increase in global food production. UC Merced is one of four campuses … Continue reading
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Cover crop survey finds benefits from ‘planting green’ – from AgriPulse
By Steve Davies More than half of farmers who seeded their cash crop into a growing cover crop last year — a practice known as “planting green” — said it helped them plant earlier than than they could in fields … Continue reading
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Video – from farmworkers to vintners in “Love on the Vine”
NOTE – In an effort to celebrate and highlight the work of California’s farmers, farmworkers, and everyone whose work helps to keep the food supply chain flowing, Governor Newsom has proclaimed October as California Farmer and Farmworker Month. This encore … Continue reading
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Increasing more targeted cattle grazing is a win-win-win opportunity – from AgNetWest
By Brian German A team of ten researchers looked closely at cattle grazing in California and determined that the practice has a great deal of potential in combatting catastrophic wildfires. Cattle are exceptionally efficient at reducing the amount of fine … Continue reading
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#VoteCalifornia with CDFA Secretary Karen Ross
“COVID has disrupted a lot of things in life this year, but it doesn’t have to disrupt your important opportunity to vote. The State of California has made it easy – you just have to have a plan.” – CDFA … Continue reading
USDA announces fourth round of Farmers to Families Food Box Program
Taken from a USDA news release The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today announced it has authorized $500 million for a fourth round of purchases for the USDA Farmers to Families Food Box Program. USDA is issuing solicitations for the … Continue reading
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Organic farming continues to grow in California – from Agri-Pulse
By Sara Wyant The number and types of organic operations in California continued to grow in recent years, according to the latest “Statistical Review of California Organic Agriculture, 2013-2016,” from the UC Davis Agricultural Issues Center. The number of organic growers in … Continue reading
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