Tuesday, February 09, 2010
Click here for RSS feedFRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- Environmentalists say a federal judge's order to temporarily allow unrestricted pumping in the Sacremento-San Joaquin Delta threatens to push an endangered salmon into extinction. Last week's decision by U.S. District Court Judge Oliver Wanger freed up irrigation supplies ...
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BOISE, Idaho (AP) -- Idaho is among several states watching to see if a California animal cruelty law drives flocks of big egg farms there to fly the coop. California voters in 2008 approved Proposition 2, banning cramped cages for laying hens by 2015. Neither Idaho nor Nevada, where official ...
Monday, February 08, 2010 10:09 AM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A federal judge temporarily lifted pumping limits Friday designed to protect endangered wild salmon in order to speed more irrigation water to California's drought-addled fields. Some of the country's largest farms had pressed for the protections to be su ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 2:29 PM
ASHLAND, Ore. (AP) -- Four environmental groups in Oregon and California have notified the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service that they intend to sue over the failure of the service to list the Pacific fisher as an endangered species. Joseph Vaile, of the Klamath-Siskiyou Wildlands Cente ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 11:48 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- A Southern California group has declined about $11 million in federal money that was earmarked to build ethanol fueling stations across the region. The Southern California Association of Governments rejected the stimulus funds Thursday. It says using more ethanol ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 11:28 AM
SACRAMENTO, California (AP) -- Federal agents have arrested the former owner of a California food company charged in an alleged price-fixing plot that prosecutors say involved buyers for some of the nation's biggest food companies. FBI agents arrested 54-year-old Frederick Salyer Thu ...
Sunday, February 07, 2010 9:08 AM
RED BLUFF, Calif. -- As the cattle market has been looking up, so has the Red Bluff Bull and Gelding Sale. The 69th annual bull auction on Jan. 30 saw a slight upsurge in total sales and average price. The 268 bulls that passed through the ring brought an average of $2,647, up from $2,638 ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:08 AM
President Barack Obama is drawing support from ag groups for his announced plan to expand trade in coming years. While details have yet to emerge, Obama said the ambitious effort will include finalizing pending trade agreements and an effort called the National Export Initiative. In ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
COLUSA, Calif. -- As an economic recovery appears to gain momentum, businesses that supply agricultural goods and services are starting to brim with optimism. That sense of hope was on display at this week's Colusa Farm Show, where thousands of attendees flocked to view the latest offerin ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
SACRAMENTO -- A draft report by the state Department of Water Resources says future water deliveries will suffer more than previously expected from the impacts of current environmental rules and projected climate change. The report shows a "continuing erosion" of the state's ability to ma ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 11:08 AM
Agricultural interests and farm state politicians are critical of cuts in farm programs outlined in President Barack Obama's 2011 federal budget proposal. While Obama proposes to increase USDA funding by 9.7 percent over its 2010 level, to $148.6 billion, he also proposes reducing some fa ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
The California Grape and Tree Fruit League ranks labor and immigration rules as the most pressing issues facing agriculture in 2010. Observers say Washington politics will allow little room for immigration issues this year. But without reform, farm employers are left vulnerable, said lea ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
A bill to discourage the use of antibiotics in animal agriculture has met a final defeat in the Senate. SB416, by Sen. Dean Florez, D-Shafter, would have required the state's schools to "make every effort" to purchase meat produced without the use of antibiotics. The bill never made it out ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:09 AM
Relisting the species could result in more irrigation limits The U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service has agreed to once again reconsider the Sacramento splittail's status under the Endangered Species Act. The agency initially listed the fish as threatened in 1999, finding that droughts and irri ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
Avocado group seeks members SACRAMENTO -- There are four vacancies on the California Avocado Inspection Committee, according to a press release from the California Department of Food and Agriculture. The committee advises the CDFA secretary on the California Avocado Inspection Program, whi ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
California may produce a 10-million-box cherry crop this year and that's a concern to Pacific Northwest cherry growers, especially if the California crop is late. California's crop comes first. In a perfect season it opens the pipeline and gets juices flowing for cherries before the larg ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. -- California plans to install a network of computerized monitors to measure methane emissions from regions that are home to dairy ranches, farms, landfills and other sources. It will be the first network of its kind in the United States and will help the state take ano ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 10:08 AM
LOS ANGELES (AP) -- Customs officers at Los Angeles International Airport say they found a weevil on a basil shipment that could have threatened California agriculture if not contained. Customs and Border Protection spokeswoman Naveeda Mirza says the tiny pear-shaped weevil was found ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 3:49 PM
SAN FRANCISCO (AP) -- A California lawmaker is proposing to require all marijuana growers and sellers to be licensed by the state as a way to increase sales tax revenue. Democratic state Sen. Ron Calderon said Wednesday he plans to introduce a bill requiring all legal and illegal marijuan ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 9:09 AM
KLAMATH FALLS, Ore. (AP) -- Three more irrigation groups have voted in favor of the Klamath Basin Restoration Agreement. The decisions from Tulelake Irrigation District and Klamath Water and Power Agency were unanimous. The board of directors for Klamath Basin Improvement District al ...
Saturday, February 06, 2010 8:49 AM
SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) -- California Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger says Florida is "for the old people" and that no one wants to take a vacation in Iowa. The Republican governor on Tuesday told a Silicon Valley conference on infrastructure that in comparison, his state has a reputati ...
Friday, February 05, 2010 3:48 PM
EUREKA, Calif. (AP) -- The former chief executive of Humboldt Creamery plans to plead guilty to a single federal charge of making false statements to a bank. Rich Ghilarducci is charged with providing false financial information to CoBank, one of the creamery's lenders, between November 2007 ...
Friday, February 05, 2010 2:48 PM
FRESNO, Calif. (AP) -- A federal judge is weighing whether to relax pumping limits that are in place to protect salmon as they migrate through California's freshwater estuary. Water districts representing some of the country's largest farms are asking for a temporary restraining order that w ...
Friday, February 05, 2010 7:49 AM
WASHINGTON (AP) -- Unemployment rose in most U.S. cities and counties in December, signaling that companies remain reluctant to hire even as the economy recovers. The unemployment rate rose in 306 of 372 metro areas, the Labor Department said Tuesday. The rate fell in 41 and was unchanged ...
Thursday, February 04, 2010 12:29 PM
GRANTS PASS, Ore. (AP) -- More than 300 people are gathering in Southern Oregon this week to share the latest science on the Klamath Basin's long-standing water woes. The U.S. Geological Survey and NOAA Fisheries Service organized the conference that runs Tuesday through Friday in Medford ...
Wednesday, February 03, 2010 1:29 PM
HEALDSBURG, Calif. (AP) -- In this cool, fertile wine growing county in Northern California, grape growers are stomping mad at a new plan to limit the amount of water vineyards can pump from local rivers and streams to protect their crops from frost -- a draft regulation meant to safeguard coh ...
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