By Craig W. Anderson At harvest time, the San Joaquin Farm Bureau News takes a look at what’s been happening in agriculture before the year’s end from the experts on

By Vicky Boyd Despite the prolonged drought and last summer’s late heat wave, the county’s overall gross agricultural production value grew to more than $3.24 billion in 2022, a 1.6%

By Vicky Boyd Depressed wine markets, cool wet spring weather, a delayed harvest and inflationary price increases for crop inputs have prompted many county winegrape growers to do some soul

By Vicky Boyd A plan to develop nearly 1,600 acres of farmland south of Tracy into warehousing has drawn the ire of nearby rural residents and farmers. From water supply

By Anna Genasci, Stanislaus County Farm Bureau, Director of Education & Communication Here we are in the Central Valley enduring another set of 100-plus days. Now, I am not a

By Vicky Boyd Increasing interest rates, combined with rising crop input prices and often lower commodity prices, have conspired to put more pressure on many farmers’ bottom lines. Despite the

By Vicky Boyd While drones have made inroads into aerially mapping farm fields and even applying beneficial insects, they have yet to gain the same traction spraying pesticides and other

By Vicky Boyd Lodi-area vineyard manager Joe Valente has gone from skeptic to believer since he began working with Kingman Ag on a kit that converts conventional tractors into autonomous