CDFA is now accepting proposals for the 2016 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program
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- Category: California News
Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is now accepting proposals for the 2016 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program. Each year, CDFA conducts a two-phase competitive solicitation process to award funds to projects that solely enhance the competitiveness of California specialty crops. Specialty crops include fruits and vegetables, tree nuts, dried fruits, horticulture, and nursery crops (including floriculture).
Consumer purchasing trends are influencing food marketing and agricultural production practices
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Sacramento, California - How consumer purchasing trends are influencing food marketing and agricultural production practices will be discussed at the upcoming California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting on Tuesday, November 3, 2015. The meeting will be held from 10:00 a.m. to 2:30 p.m. at the California Department of Food and Agriculture, 1220 ‘N’ Street – Main Auditorium, Sacramento, CA 95814.
GMO Testing Pilot Project to ensure compliance with National Organic Program
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- Written by Karen Ross and Jenny Lester Moffitt - California Department of Food and Agriculture
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Sacramento, California - It has been said that “California is the capital of organic.” The strength of that statement is a tribute to our state’s and our industry’s ability and willingness to lead, create and innovate. California’s organic growers have put in the work, the time, and the investment to farm according to a set of practices that sets them and their crops apart. And the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) and its State Organic Program (SOP) have worked alongside those growers since 2003 to make sure consumers can trust the integrity of organic agriculture and the farmers who grow it.
Graphene key to high-density, energy-efficient memory chips
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- Written by Ramin Skibba
- Category: California News
Stanford, California - The memory chips in phones, laptops and other electronic devices need to be small, fast and draw as little power as possible. For years, silicon chips have delivered on that promise.
Map identifies farmland with greatest potential for groundwater recharge
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- Category: California News
Davis, California - Growers, researchers, policymakers and others can now pinpoint California’s most promising parcels of farmland to help replenish the state’s dwindling groundwater supplies, thanks to a new interactive map developed by the California Soil Resource Lab at the University of California, Davis.
Citizenship for immigrants creates stronger political integration
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- Category: California News
Stanford, California - Naturalization acts as a catalyst that builds greater social and political integration for immigrants and their new countries, according to Stanford research.
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