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Recent improvements in bovine reproductive technology have given dairy farmers greater access to a lucrative market segment. Within the past few years, more dairies have begun transferring beef cattle embryos to dairy-cow surrogates, cashing in amid soaring demand for the calves. “It’s becoming a much bigger piece of the puzzle,” Tulare County dairy farmer Blake Wilbur said. “It’s becoming a much bigger piece of the puzzle,” Tulare County dairy farmer Blake Wilbur said. With milk prices fluctuating in recent years, dairy farmers have looked to the beef market as a “risk management opportunity,” said Daniel Munch, an economist at the American Farm Bureau Federation. “They’re also becoming beef producers.”
Learn moreCalifornia farmers continue to face significant economic challenges as they contend with lower commodity prices and soaring production costs that have been made worse by inflation, regulatory burdens, trade disruptions and other financial headwinds. That was a central message from the State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting last week in Sacramento, where industry leaders pointed to current and trending conditions that have impacted farm profitability and threaten the long-term viability of some farms.
Learn moreAlison Luna recalls her pleasant surprise when she bit into an apple slice and was met with a burst of pineapple flavor. “It was very unexpected,” Luna says. “There were so many different notes, all these floral and tropical flavors coming through.” The Petaluma resident and her two children, Viva, 10, and Theo, 8, were participating in an heirloom apple tasting at Gold Ridge Organic Farms, an 88-acre orchard in Sonoma County’s Sebastopol that grows 70 heirloom apple varieties, among other crops.
Learn moreWith figs in peak season, shoppers owe it to themselves to seek out the fresh version of a fruit they most likely associate with a filling for a certain type of cookie. Most California figs still end up as dried fruit, the bulk of which is turned into paste and other food ingredients. But the fresh form—with its sweet, honeyed flavor and jam-like center—is increasingly showing up in fresh culinary takes on familiar dishes.
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