Farm to Fork
The State of Dairy Farming in California
National Dairy Month started out as a way to distribute extra milk during the warm months of summer. The commemoration was established in 1937 by
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Farm to Fork
Farm to Fork: How FarmTech Can Help Solve America’s Farm Labor Shortage
The coronavirus pandemic is demonstrating just how critical farming and agriculture are to Americans and to the nation as a whole. It’s also shining a
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Farm to Fork
Farm to Fork: Wildfires, Coronavirus, Farmworkers and the Summer of 2020
At least 600 Wildfires continue to burn throughout California as I write and file this column in late August. The wildfires, most caused by lightning
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Farm to Fork
Farm to Fork: Pandemic Pain for California Agriculture
The coronavirus pandemic and related economic shutdown is having a serious negative financial impact on farmers, ranchers and agricultural businesses in California. That’s the conclusion
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Almond
California Growers To Harvest Record Almond Crop
Hold on to your John Deere cap — California growers are anticipating an estimated 3 billion pound almond crop this year, the largest in history.
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Cattle & Dairy
The Future of Dairy
Dairy farmers and the dairy industry can’t seem to catch a break. The decimation of the foodservice market due to the national coronavirus pandemic shutdown
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Farm to Fork
Shortening and Improving The Supply Chain From the Farm To The Fork
The coronavirus pandemic shutdown of restaurants, schools and other institutional foodservice operators in March sent shock waves throughout the agriculture community, particularly among growers of
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Farming & Ag News
USDA Steps In to Assist Producers and Struggling Families With Covid-19 Plan
One of the seemingly odd paradoxes of the national food supply chain in this time of the Covid-19 pandemic is that there are shortages of
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Farming & Ag News
Ag Secretary Perdue Closes The Door On Mandatory COOL But Cattle Ranchers Continue The Fight
U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue has closed the door on the reinstatement of mandatory country-of-origin (COOL) labeling for beef, telling the U.S. House of
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Ag Technology
Food and Farming in the Time of COVID-19
For more than half a century Americans have taken our food supply for granted thanks to the phenomenal achievements and advances farmers, food makers, distributors
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Farming & Ag News
Shift to Specialty Crops Will Continue In California
Not so long ago commodity field crops like hay, sugar beets and cotton were more prevalent in California than specialty crops were. This was particularly
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Farm to Fork
Troubles in Dairyland
Two recent bankruptcy filings by two of America’s largest dairy processors, Dean Foods and Borden, are yet the most recent troubles to face the dairy
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