Almond growers across California are continuing to monitor the spread of almond red leaf blotch, a disease that has increasingly appeared throughout the Central Valley in recent years. In today’s ...

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Fire ants remain a persistent challenge for California almond growers, impacting both crop quality and worker safety. John Mays, Senior Director of Specialty Agriculture with Central Life Sciences, says choosing ...

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American agriculture has always been shaped by the land—and by how farmers chose to use it. In today’s American Agriculture History Minute, agricultural broadcaster Mark Oppold highlights the work of ...

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A Multi-Generational Legacy on California’s Westside At Woolf Farming & Processing, agriculture is more than a business—it’s a legacy that began in 1974 and continues to evolve with each generation. ...

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Early Settlers vs. Harsh Realities The promise of the Great Plains as fertile, open land for farming drew many settlers westward in the 19th century. However, as Mark Oppold highlights ...

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Opening the Frontier to Farmers In the mid-19th century, governments in North America began actively encouraging farmers to settle and cultivate vast areas of frontier land. These policies would dramatically ...

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California agriculture has always depended on one critical resource: water. But understanding today’s water debates requires looking back at how the state’s complex water system was built—and how policy decisions ...

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A New Era of Cattle Ranching in the American West In the late 19th century, the western Great Plains emerged as one of the most important cattle-producing regions in the ...

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Understanding where food comes from is something many students today rarely experience firsthand. That’s why programs like the California Foundation for Agriculture in the Classroom are working to bridge the ...

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California agriculture has long faced uncertainty when it comes to water. But during a recent conversation on the Ag Meter, former Congressman and Duarte Nursery owner John Duarte laid out ...

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