Ag at Large: Farmers playing the word game
Whether they know it or not, farmers in California especially are playing a serious word game, one in which others make the rules and...
Ag at Large: Citrus future may be shrunken trees
Orange growers and others in the citrus industry, especially researchers, are exploring the possibility of reducing the size of trees that produce their crops....
Does Salinas portend future ag labor peace?
Observers and participants in the 50-year struggle for peaceful relations between farm workers in California and those who hire them are seeing some encouraging...
Clovis company honored as Ag Business of the Year
The Fresno Chamber of Commerce and Baker Peterson Franklin announced the winners of the 2018 Agriculturalist of the Year and the Ag Business of...
Quail Lake Environmental Charter School Students Make Farm-to-School Connection With Dairy Cow and Calf
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Students at Quail Lake Environmental Charter School learned firsthand about the role of agriculture in the food supply, how milk and dairy...
Ag at Large: Farm worker families unite for better lives
Farm workers in California’s Central Valley have created a new organization that helps them expand and strengthen their health, social and civil responsibilities. Benefits...
Ag at Large: Why do farms clutter the environmental landscape?
When the environmental phobia first became a movement, farmers wondered why the day-to-day activities they perform seemed to frustrate environmentalists. They still wonder, but...
Ag at Large: Hops adapt to valley climate
With the number and types of beers and the people who want to drink them proliferating, the need for the agricultural crop of hops...
Organic fruits and vegetables create Clovis oasis
Photo by Valerie Shelton - Bruno Luconi shows off the herb garden at MOA.By Valerie Shelton, Editor
Be a good steward of the land and...
Ag at Large: Research reveals farmers’ spirit
A recent research project to measure growers’ dependence on a certain chemical product has inadvertently displayed the inherent spirit that makes farmers what they...
Ag at Large: Annual equipment displays approach
After 53 and 51 years of staging annual farm equipment extravaganzas, often in drizzly February weather, you might think enthusiasm is slacking, but the...
Ag at Large: Generosity prevails as top farm crop
You might have noticed that when a community in the farm belt faces extenuating needs, it can count on the area’s farmers to respond...
Ag at Large: Planting by tape saves labor costs
California’s vegetable crop growers are developing a kind of hands-off process for planting seeds that cuts labor costs, ensures a consistent stand and avoids...
Ag at Large: Bovine beauties may not be black and white
By Don Curlee | Contributed
It might come as a shock: California’s happiest cows may not be the black and white Holstein dairy animals so...
FresYes: A pat on the head not to be ignored
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California farmers seem to receive more than their share of kicks in the tail, but they can and should acknowledge gratefully one recent...
Ag at Large: Bugs to the rescue
Insects by the trillions called beneficials have been raised and released annually in California for the past 50 years or more as a significant...
Ag at Large
This year’s farm equipment shows bigger than ever
Just like the Super Bowl, California’s two major farm equipment shows keep growing, attracting more attendees and...
Ag at Large: Flooding the surface fills the underground
A research team has found that the recharge of depleted underground water basins can occur when crops such as alfalfa and almonds are flooded...
Despite recent rain, water conservation still needed
By A.T. Gilbert
While residents throughout the Central Valley breathed a sigh of relief after the recent rainstorms, representatives of the Clovis public utilities department...
Ag at large: Worlds divide the market for farmers
By Don Curlee | Contributed
We talk about the world of farming, but we and today’s farmers need to know what other worlds exist in today’s...
Ag at Large: Pest control enters a new generation
It hardly seems possible, but several of the pest control advisors that farmers and growers depend on are beginning to retire. Some of us...
Ag at Large: Solar sites can dodge farm land
When they first began to cover plots of farmland with panels to collect the sun’s energy, some thought the encroachment of the paraphernalia on...
Ag at Large: State’s farm crops grow from research
Riding a tractor or guiding a pickup across a dusty field might not be inspiring environments for a farmer to consider agricultural research, but...
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