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By Cindy Zimmerman For the second year in a row, President Donald J. Trump addressed the members of the American Farm Bureau Federation at its 100th annual convention Monday in…

By Andre Biscaro and Richard Smith, University of California Cooperative Extension Optimal nitrogen (N) management of vegetable crops requires understanding the crop’s N uptake pattern for the right amount and…

On January 1, 2019, United Phosphorus Inc. (UPI) officially changed their name to UPL NA Inc. According to the company, the name change will more accurately reflect the global brand…

Automated Produce Equipment (APE) has a new alliance with CMI Equipment and Engineering. CMI is a metal fabrication company specializing in manufacturing industrial food processing equipment. Located in Minnesota, the company…

In a news release from December 27, the USDA Agricultural Marketing Service (AMS) assured their business partners that AMS expects the Federal government shutdown to have minimal impact on most commodity procurement activities….

Story and photos by Denise Keller, Editor   The Christensen and Bergeson families have always measured the success of their onion crop by the size of the bulbs. But since…

At the direction of President Donald J. Trump, U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue announced a proposed rule intended to move more able-bodied adults without dependents (ABAWDs) off of  Supplemental Nutrition…

The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) today published the 2017 Pesticide Data Program (PDP) Annual Summary. The Summary shows more than 99 percent of the samples tested had pesticide residues…