Year: 2014

For the fifth  year in a row California Giant Berry Farms has participated in the local NBC Affiliate KSBW holiday event called ‘Share Your Holiday’.  Each year the station has a telethon type event throughout the central coast of California over an 8 hour time period encouraging the community to donate food, clothing, toys and cash to support the local chapters of the Salvation Army. …

Tanimura & Antle continues to find new ways to connect consumers with their products with the launch of their new blog called “Family Farming”. The blog will provide consumers with more of an in-depth view of the day to day happenings of this iconic and historic third generation family farm. …

In a comprehensive analysis of more than 1,500 field studies conducted over 20 years, an agricultural economist reports that neonicotinoid insecticides provided average yield increases ranging from 3.6 to 71.3 percent in eight major crops across North America.  This research indicates the average yield benefit of using neonicotinoids far exceeds the cost of treatment and delivers a substantial economic return on investment to the farmer. …