Farm Plus Financial is proud to support the young agricultural community by offering agricultural scholarships from Farm Plus as well as resources & links for other scholarship opportunities. Students in…
According to research by the Buy California Marketing Agreement (BCMA), California's specialty crops yield $15.9 billion annually. The research is part of the new "California Grown" campaign. "The research clearly…
America's Carbon Footprint is one of the nation's biggest concerns as more and more changes are made to decrease pollution and turn to renewable energy. Seven years ago Senator Dean…
While the last few years in farming have been defined by erratic weather and severe climatological disasters, the gradual exhaustion of water resources may pose a much more serious, albeit…
A new California law designed to encourage the growth of urban California farms across the state will be going into effect soon, offering new urban farms a host of financial…
Politicians from major agricultural states are pressuring Immigration and Customs Enforcement officials to stop launching farm audits, possibly a sign that Congress is coming closer to passing serious immigration reform.…
A California start-up company is hoping to establish the world’s largest aquaponic farm within the next eighteen months, a goal that could revolutionize sustainable agricultural worldwide. Aquaponics is a hybridized…
For the past few years, farmers have faced a gradually shrinking labor pool. With undocumented workers being driven out of several states, and with the overall US economy attracting fewer…
Farmers across the country are still pressuring Congress to pass comprehensive immigration reform, hoping that, in the absence of a five-year farm bill, politicians will do something to aid the…
While many farmers are focusing on immigration reform as the solution to their labor shortages, some robotic engineers are offering a technological answer, agricultural robots. Farmers have long been on…