Voice of California Agriculture

Sonoma County farmers defeat Measure J, Identifying the drop in wine consumption, more on autonomous agricultural equipment, Bird flu update, and Brussel sprouts gain in popularity.

Agriculture is ready to work for farm solutions with the new president and Congress. 

 Our featured interview is about the rising concern of mental health on the farm.  Some things you can do to help, and resources available.  

We continue to look at autonomous agricultural equipment.  Today, robotic platforms have many uses. 

Also, agricultural officials battling the Oriental fruit fly in southern California.  

Tukey supplies for Thanksgiving, autonomous sprayers claim significant reduction in herbicide use, water flow standards for two north state rivers, more estimates on hurricane crop damage in the south.

Our featured interviews on the watermelon harvest and adopting farm automation and robotics. Stories include Hurricane Milton hits Florida agriculture, bird flu affecting more California dairies, monarch butterflies, and mountain lion update. 

A groundwater law causes San Joaquin Valley land values to plummet.  Reasons for the state’s winegrape glut.  Farmers comment on their crops this year for beekeeping, sheep producing, pumpkin agrotourism, and mangos.

Plus, some interesting facts about major U.S. pumpkin producing states.  

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The current U.S. farm economy resembles the farm crisis of the 1980s, according to a farm economist.  Hurricane Helene’s impact on agriculture. Our featured interview on the pumpkin crop and market conditions for Halloween. State Water Board raises water rates. 

Mountain Lion kills of livestock and pets explode in Sierra Nevada counties, harvest and growing season update, bird flu in dairy cows spread—cause unknown, and more hurdles to getting a Farm Bill passed in the lame duck Congress.

U.S. farm trade deficit, Tulare Lake Subbasin, Farm group on ballot propositions, and the port strike. 

Retail beef prices are at record levels, but are cattlemen benefitting? More bird flu found in California dairies.  More stringent National Organic Program regulations for livestock and poultry forces Marin’s public certifier to extinguish its program, we’ll check in on California’s date harvest, and more. 

Wolves and lions preying on livestock, animal activists put a measure on the Sonoma County ballot that threatens livestock and poultry farmers, plus the agricultural trade deficit grows again, and more.