Bright lights, big field. Mikey Taylor drives around a bend, heading home at 7:30 p.m. on a fall night, and spots four lights glowing in the ink, 40 yards into a field fronting his Delta farm. In the ...

Members come together to host a variety of educational workshops and PAC Field Days for producers/farmers, commercial and industry personnel, and governmental agencies, as well as programs that offer ...

Planning for 2025 means planning for uncertainty. At some point during the season, your farm will face too much water, or too little, high wind, heat, cold and everything in between. While not every ...

Cover crops provide benefits to vegetable farms of all sizes in addition to larger-scale contributions to the public good. Reduced tillage systems can provide additional soil health benefits. Many ...

Drones monitoring fields for weeds and robots targeting and treating crop diseases may sound like science fiction but is actually happening already, at least on some experimental farms. Researchers ...

Artificial light-type plant factories are an emerging agricultural innovation that enables crops to be grown year-round in precisely controlled environments. By adjusting factors such as light, ...

For specialty crop farmers, 2025 has offered little relief from mounting financial pressures. Markets that once promised stable margins are now defined by volatility, with production expenses ...

CHICO — The annual Butte County Crop Report shows 2023 took a bit of a dip in overall crop production value compared to 2022. The main culprit appears to be rice, which dropped considerably in value ...