KSTE Farm Hour

There’s a big new overseas market opening up for rice growers: China. We have the details. A California farmer is battling for his rights to plow his land and his court case against the federal government will begin soon…maybe, unless he and his lawyers can convince the court to throw the case out. We’ll tell you about this latest twist involving John Duarte and his wheat field in Tehama County. Another citrus tree has been found in California with the deadly citrus greening disease, we’ll tell you where. And we find out what’s happening with the Sacramento County Farm Bureau. Among other things, they’re celebrating a milestone birthday. All that, crop reports, and more…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.

There’s a big new overseas market opening up for rice growers: China. We have the details. A California farmer is battling for his rights to plow his land and his court case against the federal government will begin soon…maybe, unless he and his lawyers can convince the court to throw the case out. We’ll tell you about this latest twist involving John Duarte and his wheat field in Tehama County. Another citrus tree has been found in California with the deadly citrus greening disease, we’ll tell you where. And we find out what’s happening with the Sacramento County Farm Bureau. Among other things, they’re celebrating a milestone birthday. All that, crop reports, and more…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.

It was a bipartisan effort at the state capitol to pass the extension of the Cap and Trade bill for reducing greenhouse gases this past week. But the only way a handful of Republicans would come to support one of democrat Jerry Brown’s pet projects was to get relief and certainty for California’s agricultural community. What did the farmers get? We’ll tell you. But another of Governor Brown’s pipe dreams is getting resistance. A powerful group of California farmers are balking at paying for the Delta Tunnels project. We will tell you why. There are several weak links in getting california farmers to adopt internet-based technologies on the farm. We have that report. All that, the latest crop news, and more…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour.

Lawsuit challenges Delta Tunnels OK by Feds. Processing tomato crop heat woes. Rural broadband grant for CA. Profiles of Capay Valley farmers. Rice crop update.

The Delta Tunnels project received a couple of green lights from the federal government this past week, but there are still plenty of hurdles left for that project to continue, including one notable fed holdout: the department of reclamation. We have the details. We have the latest state Prop 65 ruling on glyphosate labeling, and there is another popular herbicide getting closer scrutiny. Rodents versus drip tape. We talk to one University of California researcher who is testing one possible solution to limit vole and meadow mouse damage to your irrigation system. An update on Farmers Markets in the Sacramento area, crop reports, and a lot more…on this week’s KSTE Farm Hour!