Monthly Archives: March 2013

http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/egov/Press_Releases/Press_Release.asp?PRnum=13-007 The California Department of Food and Agriculture will be hosting two listening sessions on the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) Food Safety Modernization Act (FSMA) Proposed Fresh Produce and Preventive Control Rules. The Proposed Fresh Produce Rule will be presented on Tuesday, April 9 in Tulare, CA and both the Proposed Fresh Produce and Preventive Control Rules will …

The latest segment in the Growing California video series, a partnership with California Grown, is Love on the Vine, a story about a family that started as farmworkers and now owns and operates a Napa Valley winery.

http://www.fresnobee.com/2013/03/05/3200415/fresno-food-expo-showcases-new.html A fiery but flavorful peanut hot sauce, raspberry-flavored sangria and finger-shaped limes are among the more than 50 new products being showcased at this year’s Fresno Food Expo. The Expo will be held March 14 at the Fresno Convention Center and is the only food trade show focusing solely on San Joaquin Valley producers. Last year, the event attracted …

http://www.appeal-democrat.com/news/sessions-123723-yuba-dating.html Hollywood helped inspire the Marysville event that brought agricultural buyers and sellers together Monday at Yuba-Sutter Ag Speed Dating for what was termed “cross pollination.” That is what happens when pollen from a different plant is delivered to a flower. Debra Lucero, chief executive officer of the Butte County Economic Development Corp., said the five-minute sessions are meant to …

The latest segment in the Growing California video series, a partnership with California Grown, is Citrus Scourge, a story about the Asian citrus psyllid, the disease it spreads, huanglongbing, or citrus greening, and CDFA’s response to the threat.

  “Weights & Measures may be ranked among the necessaries of life to every individual of human society.”  -John Quincy Adams, sixth US president. In celebrating National Weights and Measures Week (March 1-7), we are recognizing a U.S. system of weights and measures that was established almost at the very start of our country, in 1799.  When California became a state in …