Drought expected to disrupt California’s olive harvest
The 2014 California table olive forecast is 50,000 tons, down 45 percent from last year’s crop of 91,000 tons, according to a survey conducted by the USDA, National Agricultural Statistics Service. The California table olive crop is down due to a variety of setbacks after last year’s harvest, including a hard freeze in December, another […]
Farmers markets booming: California ranks No. 1
The U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) is celebrating National Farmers Market Week on August 4-10. Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced that 8,144 farmers markets are now listed in USDA’s National Farmers Market Directory, up from about 5,000 in 2008. The Directory, voluntarily updated by farmers market managers, state departments of agriculture, marketing associations, and others, […]
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