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  • 1 month ago | farmprogress.com | Tim Hearden

    In early 2024, Orland, Calif., farmer Rich Johansen approached the Organically Grown Co. with a proposition. Johansen Ranch, established in 1910 and situated on the northernmost citrus-growing ground in California, is known for producing premium organic Satsuma and Clementine mandarins and other citrus varieties. For more than four decades, the 77-acre ranch has supplied its harvest to the Portland, Ore.-based OGC for distribution throughout the Pacific Northwest.

  • 1 month ago | farmprogress.com | Tim Hearden

    It isn’t technically summer yet, but California growers don’t need a calendar to know that they’re entering the hottest months of the year. Many areas in the Central Valley are poised to experience their first triple-digit temperatures of the year on Friday and Saturday, May 30-31. Some areas may flirt with record highs for late May, warns the National Weather Service in Sacramento.

  • 1 month ago | farmprogress.com | Tim Hearden

    Amid the proliferation of food labels touting organic, “natural” and “GMO-free” products, the USDA Organic seal remains a constant source of trust and confidence for consumers, a recent Organic Trade Association report finds. As the number of claims and labels on retail aisles continued to expand in 2024, the group’s research showed that younger consumers consider the impact of production on both the planet and people.

  • 1 month ago | farmprogress.com | Tim Hearden

    California’s wildlife agency is “unaware of any public safety threats” caused by gray wolves despite several counties’ declarations that the apex predators are becoming a danger to humans, a top state official said. “Our law enforcement team will continue to investigate any reports of abnormal wolf behavior that could lead to a threat to public safety,” said Kaitlin Talbot, the state Department of Food and Agriculture’s deputy director of communications.

  • 1 month ago | farmprogress.com | Tim Hearden

    Tim Hearden, Senior Editor, Western Farm PressRiders on horseback.Heather Smith ThomasColorado has hired, trained and deployed 13 range riders to help ranchers prevent the wolf-livestock conflicts that resulted after the state in late 2023. The state’s departments of Agriculture and Parks and Wildlife began offering the riders this spring.

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