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Despite California Storms, Water Challenges Persist ⋅ BY CHRISTINE SOUZA ⋅ In early March, as still more storms dumped new snow onto California’s burgeoning snowpack, water managers, farmers and environmentalists gathered in Sacramento to discuss long-term challenges to secure a more...

Video Series Explores Soil Health In California Cotton Fields ⋅ BY PAMELA KAN-RICE ⋅ Over a century of growing cotton in California, scientists and farmers have learned how to better manage soil health. To share their collective knowledge, they have produced...

Lack Of Water Reduces California Farmers’ Incentive To Grow Cotton • By Ching Lee, California Farm Bureau Federation • Lack of water for agriculture could dampen prospects for California farmers to grow more cotton, even as prices for the commodity have soared. Diminished...

Cotton is an important crop worldwide and grown in large amounts in the United States, which provided 38 percent of cotton exports in 2017. One of the greatest threats to cotton production is Fusarium wilt, a fungal disease caused...

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to find ways to sustain irrigated agriculture while improving groundwater quantity and quality...

• By Jamie Johansson, President, California Farm Bureau Federation • It’s hard to ignore an all-too-common scene looking east to the Sierra, or by stepping outside onto my Butte County farm and into an eerily familiar aromatic smoke. It’s wildfire season,...

TCGA’s Kelley Green Honored Tony Williams, left, Texas Cotton Ginners’ Association executive vice president, recently recognized Kelley Green for his 30-year contribution as the TCGA director of technical services. Williams presented Green with a plaque and a Bass Pro Shop...

Rhino Medical Supply Tapped As Exclusive Distributor For Cotton Medical Scrubs Field to Closet’s vision of providing 100% Deltapine cotton medical scrubs crafted with cotton grown in Georgia and created in an end-to-end U.S. supply chain took a giant step...

• By Ching Lee • Saying that a mandatory cancer warning for the herbicide glyphosate would undermine its important agricultural uses and community benefits, the California Farm Bureau has joined other farm groups to support a California court decision that...

• By Christine Souza • Editor’s note: This article is excerpted from the Ag Alert April 7, 2021, issue. To read the article in its entirety, go to www.agalert.com/archive/. With all signs pointing to a critically dry year in California, farmers...

• By Ching Lee • Despite mounting calls for federal maritime regulators to address congestion, delays and shipping challenges at U.S. ports, California agricultural exporters say they have yet to see any relief. Since last fall, the Pacific Merchant Shipping Association...

The State Water Project and the Bureau of Reclamation, which operates the Central Valley Project, have both announced reductions in water deliveries for the 2021 season south of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta. They base their allocations on current...

The cost of ginning cotton is an important concern for producers and ginners. Every three years, the U.S. Department of Agriculture Agricultural Research Service conducts a survey of ginning costs by region. Data from the survey allows gin management to...

Based on  below-average statewide snowpack, the Bureau of Reclamation recently announced reduced water allocations for nearly all Central Valley Project water contractors. Deliveries could change depending on precipitation received during the next few months, said Ernest Conant, Reclamation regional...

Ted Sheely, a producer from Lemoore, California, was elected as president of Cotton Council International for 2021. CCI is the National Cotton Council’s export promotion arm and carries out programs in more than 50 countries globally under the Cotton...