Opinion: Agricultural Research Service Salutes Researcher With Big Impact On Fruit Industry

Majority of the 2012 illegal pesticide residues were on produce imported from other countries and contained very low levels (a fraction of a part per million).

There’s no question that fruit and vegetable growers are operating in a difficult environment, but growers – and […]

Editor’s Note: Along with my Western Fruit Grower colleague, senior account manager Keith Christensen, I was fortunate to […]

Tim Carl has developed an irrigation method that not only has reduced the water use on his Napa […]

Several years ago, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) detected a new pest in California — […]

California’s specialty crops account for more than half of the nation’s fruits, vegetables and nuts as well as […]

  As both the citrus and pistachio farm advisor in Kern County, CA, who would have thought that […]

Scientists have managed to kill Pierce’s disease, a disease that is currently incurable in winegrapes. It was done […]

The USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) is announcing the eradication of European grapevine moth (EGVM) […]

The 2012 California table grape season kicked off during the first week of May, with initial shipments of […]

Friends Day hosted a record crowd of 2,000 attendees last Friday at Duarte Nursery’s annual open house in […]

Farming is all about timing. Some of the things we need to do are time flexible, like pruning, […]

State of California and federal agricultural officials are lifting the European grapevine moth (EGVM) quarantine in Fresno, Mendocino, […]

California agriculture can be viewed as a model for developing agricultural practices, fashioning innovative farm systems, and solving […]

The U.S. Supreme Court decided this week that it won’t hear a challenge to the federal Delta smelt […]

Critical issue: Turn your eyes westward, read the papers, watch the news, and you will continue to hear […]

Duarte Nursery has begun the first phase of a two-year, 20-acre expansion project that will increase their total […]

The statistics are alarming at first glance. U.S. pistachio acreage, which is limited to three states, California, Arizona, […]

The Western Pistachio Association (WPA) announced at its 2011 annual meeting in Santa Barbara, CA, that pistachio growers […]