Monthly Archives: May 2015

By Jessica Carew Craft You drink eight glasses of water a day. But you consume far more through the food you eat.   Some consumer items use a lot of water (jeans are among the most demanding), but the bulk of our water goes into food.   With the return of intense drought in California, attention has focused on the …

A major disease event for poultry has landed in the U.S. Highly-pathogenic avian influenza has been detected in a number of states, and while the brunt of the impact has been in the Midwest, and our thoughts are with those poultry farmers, the disease hasn’t been limited to that region. There have been additional detections here in the west, including …

By Claire Leschin-Hoar It was a single limb on a walnut tree that had withered and died. A small loss, and one Craig McNamara (President of the CA State Board of Food and Agriculture) could have easily missed during his orchard inspection in June. But come July, the tree lost a few more. By August, it was dead. Botryosphaeria, the …

A Drought Forum hosted in Fresno by the California State Board of Food and Agriculture is now underway. A live stream of the meeting is available. The link will take viewers to the web site of the Governor’s Office of Emergency Services, which is facilitating the stream. The forum is scheduled until 1 pm today.

  By John Holland The Fanelli Dairy has 750 cows that produce milk – and a far larger number of worms that turn out something else of value. The farm is taking part in a research project using worms to consume nitrogen in manure-tainted water that irrigates its feed crops. The goal, in part, is to reduce the risk of …

By Craig McNamara, President, California State Board of Food and Agriculture  Tomorrow (May 5), the California State Board of Food and Agriculture will be hosting a drought forum at the Big Fresno Fair (10 am-1 pm) to  to hear from California’s farmers, ranchers, farm workers, and other community stakeholders on the impacts of this drought – giving a voice to …

                              Calaveras Co. Fair & Jumping Frog Jubilee 5/14/2015 to 5/17/2015 Angels Camp, CA Chowchilla-Madera County Fair 5/14/2015 to 5/17/2015 Chowchilla, CA Contra Costa County Fair 5/29/2015 to 5/31/2015 Antioch, CA Dixon May Fair 5/7/2015 to 5/10/2015 Dixon, CA Glenn County Fair 5/14/2015 to 5/17/2015 Orland, …