Monthly Archives: February 2017

This month the Planting Seeds blog is featuring stories on food security, nutrition, and efforts to reduce food waste. CDFA’s Office of Farm to Fork is committed to helping all Californians access healthy and nutritious California-grown food by connecting consumers, school districts, and others directly with California’s farmers and ranchers. This is an encore presentation of a video from CDFA’s “Growing California” …

Mankind’s future ability to feed itself is in jeopardy due to intensifying pressures on natural resources, mounting inequality, and the fallout from a changing climate, warns a new FAO report. Though very real and significant progress in reducing global hunger has been achieved over the past 30 years, “expanding food production and economic growth have often come at a heavy …

By Sean Nealon A team of scientists, led by a group at the University of California, Riverside, has received a five-year, $5.1 million grant from the U.S. Department of Agriculture to fight a disease that is devastating the citrus industry. The team will design and identify bactericides–chemicals that kill bacteria–to target Huanglongbing, a bacterial plant disease decimating citrus trees worldwide. They also …

This month the Planting Seeds blog is featuring stories on food security, nutrition, and efforts to reduce food waste. CDFA’s Office of Farm to Fork is committed to helping all Californians access healthy and nutritious California-grown food by connecting consumers, school districts, and others directly with California’s farmers and ranchers. Final totals from the 2016/17 California State Employees Food Drive indicate that …

CDFA’s series of listening sessions for input on priorities for the 2018 Farm Bill will conclude this week with meetings in Salinas on Wednesday, February 22 and Los Angeles on Thursday, February 23rd. The Salinas listening session will be from 4:30-6:30 pm at the Monterey County Farm Bureau, 1140 Abbott Street, Suite C. Salinas, CA 93901. The Los Angeles meeting will be from …

When a fear of imminent disaster on February 12 led to mass evacuations in communities along the Feather River beneath Oroville Dam, tens of thousands of people were forced to clear out in a hurry, many with no place to go. A number of Northern California fairs stepped-up at a moment’s notice to provide shelter for people and animals, including …

CDFA’s series of Farm Bill listening sessions continues this week in Tulare, with the next one scheduled on Thursday during the annual World Ag Expo. The final two meetings in this round are scheduled next week in Salinas and Los Angeles. In this video, CDFA shows how the Farm Bill’s benefits extend well beyond farming and ranching; how it is …