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Numbers define a marketing career, and a more than twelvefold sales increase during his 36-plus years as president of Supima certainly qualifies Jesse 'Jess' Curlee's tenure as successful in a [...]

Not unlike many high school graduates in 1967, Terry Stark didn't want to go to Vietnam when he graduated from Round Rock, Texas high school. Stark is as patriotic as [...]

The finest Acala Upland and Extra Long Staple (ELS) Pima cottons in the world are produced in California. Fiber buyers worldwide know them well as the finest cotton for producing [...]

Desert cotton growers in Arizona and Southern California will probably be scheduling their first irrigation before they know how the federal farm program will impact their crop. San Joaquin Valley [...]

It was a farm show of contrasts. This year's World Ag Expo in Tulare, Calif., formerly known at the California Farm Equipment Show, was not very worldly for Kings County, [...]

BLYTHE, CALIF, FARMERS Bob Hull, Danny Robinson and their neighbor producers in the Palo Verde Valley of Southern California knew the day would come when the water they use to [...]

The past 18 months have been the best in decades for California grape growers. Demand for wine grapes has been strong and that looks to be the scenario for the [...]

Despite strong world demand for Pima cotton and prices to reflect it, California cotton acreage will tumble once again, this time to below 300,000 acres this season. Acala/upland acreage is [...]

It was the 65th annual California Weed Science Society conference, but fertilizer was on the mind of many there in Sacramento earlier this year. It takes nitrogen to grow crops [...]

Chad Crivelli grew his first cotton crop in 1995 as an FFA project. He was the first-ever national fiber crop award winner from California--and he's been growing cotton ever since. [...]

The curtain is slowly parting on the Hudnglongbing (HLB) citrus drama in California. Three Asian citrus psyllids have been discovered this year in Tulare County, the heart of the San [...]

California agriculture has survived well despite a regulatory morass that until now has revolved pretty much around pesticides. Now there's a new quagmire emerging: fertilizer use regulations. Sacramento water quality [...]

There was Dago Red long before there was Two Buck Chuck. More than 136,000 cases of Dago Red wine were sold in the mid-1980s. That's miniscule compared to the more [...]

California farmers, dairymen and ranchers must comply with the most demanding regulations in the nation, far more onerous than any of their counterparts in other states. They must comply with [...]

Firebaugh, Calif., melon grower Joe L. Del Bosque takes special interest when the subject is farm workers, since he employees about 900 seasonal workers each year on his farm and [...]

Byline: Harry Cline, Farm Press Editor Emeritus Go into any big box retailer or mass merchandiser and there likely will be see large displays of items such as t-shirts, towels, [...]

Byline: Harry Cline It is difficult to erase the image of a dehydrated man crumpled on the side of a dusty Arizona-Mexico border road near Nogales, Ariz. vomiting bile in [...]

Ken Bingham of J-V Farms, Yuma, Ariz., compares lettuce prices in the waning days of this season's desert iceberg lettuce deal to only one other time during his 35-year farming [...]

Plateau...excuse me?...what plateau? No plateaus in California's San Joaquin Valley -- geologically or in its cotton fields. A year ago yield and quality plateauing were the buzz at the annual [...]

Arizona cotton growers now have their very own cotton variety. It arrived at lightning speed. It's AG3601, an upland that grows like Deltapine 90, according to Pinal County, Ariz., producer [...]

Paul Schnepf peers at cotton fields with what can only be described as passionate discernment, matched only by his aggressiveness when he actually invaded the rows. There is nothing casual [...]

The San Joaquin Valley's agricultural-history will forever be linked to the vision and tenacity of German immigrant Henry Miller and his partner Charles Lux. Miller & Lux amassed vast land [...]

One of Gary McLaughlin's long-time customers once commented that when he started farming on the West Side of California's San Joaquin Valley years ago, the only thing he needed to [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Kings County, Calif., stone fruit grower John Warmerdam has an unusual way of characterizing California peach, plum and nectarine seasons. Typically, most years growers annually complain about [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Large crops often create more problems than small ones, and this season's California raisin-type grape crop is huge compared to last season. This is resulting in confusion [...]

Byline: Harry Cline It may not be news as big as the naming of a new pope, but the release of a third of the Bay Delta Conservation Plan (BDCP) [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Farmers and ranchers are big users of lubricants for their equipment; however, it was a different oil widely applied for the opening of the 46th World Ag [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Make sure your rubber boots are in the pickup. It's almost time for the 'Tulare farm show.' Officially known as World Ag Expo, the 46th running of [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Chad Crivelli grew his first cotton crop in 1995 as an FFA project. He was the first-ever national fiber crop award winner from California -- and he's [...]

Byline: Harry Cline California voters decisively rejected the mislabeled Proposition 37 'right to know' food labeling initiative by a huge margin. It was an amazing come-from-behind victory. At one time [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Vote no on California's Prop 37. Most of you will. However, we are likely to be on the losing end of the vote. Polls are now showing [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Growing resistance to the organophosphate chlorpyrifos, huge populations and no natural parasites have elevated citricola scale to the No. 1 citrus pest in the San Joaquin Valley. [...]

Byline: Harry Cline These may be the dog days of August, but for San Joaquin Valley cotton producers their cotton crop has the look of a streaking, lean greyhound driving [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Rather than getting angry at the latest Environmental Working Group (EWG) propaganda, I chuckled with the most recent example from Ken Cook's nettlesome group. Cook is EWG [...]

Byline: Harry Cline I am a Warren Buffett fan. I am also a parrothead, therefore, I am an admirer of Jimmy Buffett, too. Theyare both millionaires. Warrenas wealth is measured [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Just about anyone can make an enjoyable California wine. A visit to the local supermarket or other wine retailers will verify that. There are endless shelves of [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Farm show week in the heart of Californiaas San Joaquin Valley started off with stormy clouds overhead. However, the light rain and blustery cold wind did not [...]

Byline: Harry ClineCalifornia farmers have proven repeatedly they can be quick to adopt new technology.GPS tractor guidance systems and the compatible variable rate technology along with drip irrigation are two [...]

Byline: Harry Cline History is never wrong. Itas whether paying attention to it is the right thing to do. For California almond growers, looking into recent past seasons can tell [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Don Cameron's three decades of farming on the West Side of California's San Joaquin Valley can be defined by the numbers 3 and 26. When the 59-year-old [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Don Cameronas three decades of farming on the West Side of Californiaas San Joaquin Valley can be defined by the numbers 3 and 26. When the 59-year-old [...]

Byline: Harry Cline When Californians talk about living or working 'on the water,' itas likely referring to the stateas 840-mile coastline. However, the infinite blue Pacific Ocean might as well [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Don Cameronas three decades of farming on the West Side of Californiaas San Joaquin Valley can be defined by the numbers 3 and 26. When the 59-year-old [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Don Cameronas three decades of farming on the West Side of Californiaas San Joaquin Valley can be defined by the numbers 3 and 26. When the 59-year-old [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Keystroking this year-end Merry Christmas/Happy New Year offering harks back to the waning days of yester-century. December 1999 it was. Seems like only yesterday when my wife [...]

Byline: Harry Cline San Joaquin Valley cotton growers' aggressive effort to turn back a menacing soil fungus that threatens to take out significant future crop acreage has suffered a major [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Roadside snowfall is heavier this fall in the San Joaquin Valley than it has been in several years, and it is beautiful. Tufts of cotton (snow) lining [...]

Byline: Harry Cline An unseasonably wet and cold weather front may have slowed Californiaas early cotton harvest, but it did not necessarily dampen grower and marketer enthusiasm for another good [...]

Byline: Harry Cline Californiaas cotton comeback is in a Catch-22 quandary. As the economic outlook for the long-time San Joaquin Valley crop staple improves, the capability to continue to expand [...]

Byline: Harry Cline The Environmental Working Groupas (EWG) disputable 'Dirty Dozen' is still in the news, and thatas good. The latest is from Mischa Popoff, a Canadian who grew up [...]