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By Audrey Hill, Contributor, Valley Ag Voice
For those of us who know the Laverty family, we know them to be a hardworking, honest family of friendly faces with deep roots in Kern County. They work around the clock to keep up with the family’s ever-growing business and provide...
By Elizabeth Vaughn, Copy Editor, Valley Ag Voice
Starting September 1st, the Water Association of Kern County will have a new Executive Director at the helm. Serving dutifully as the association’s executive director for ten years, Beth Pandol will be retiring and welcoming long-time Ag community advocate Jenny Holtermann.
By Sabrina Ziegler, Contributor, Valley Ag Voice
The Kern Community College District Board of Trustees approved moving forward with the construction of a new Agriculture Building on the Bakersfield College campus. Construction will begin in the Fall of 2022 and will be completed in Spring of 2024.
By John Moore, President, Kern County Farm Bureau
Harvesting can be bittersweet when the product of months of a farmer’s time and effort hangs from a tree or vine, or lays buried under the earth. The bounty estimated as farmers walk fields produces varying degrees of excitement and dread....
By Colleen Taber, Administrator, Kern County Farm Bureau
When some of us hear the phrase “social media,” and we cringe. We reflect on the negativity that shared through a variety of outlets. The amount of negativity we face affects our day to day interactions. Some take a “time out”...
By Lindsey Mebane, President, Kern County Young Farmers & Ranchers
Fall is upon us and busy seasons seem to be the norm around Kern County. Calves are being weaned and shipped across the country and through sale yards so ranchers can get that once-a-year paycheck. Row crops are planting...
By Mike McCoy, Executive Director, Kern County Museum
I was on a remote trout stream in Colorado a few years ago when I told another fisherman I was from Bakersfield.
“Oh, where all the carrots come from,” he said.
I nodded not knowing...
Press Release Provided by the California Department of Pesticide Regulation
A recently adopted California Department of Pesticide Regulation (DPR) rule restricting general consumer use of pesticides containing the ingredient carbaryl will take effect August 1, 2020.
Carbaryl is widely used in agriculture. Introduced in the early 1960s under the brand name...
By Ching Lee, Assistant Editor, Ag Alert
Reprinted with Permission from the California Farm Bureau Federation
Like many others around the world, I recently received a package of unsolicited seeds in the mail that appear to have come from China.
Sacramento County Agricultural Commissioner Chris Flores told me...
By Christine Souza, Assistant Editor, Ag Alert
Reprinted with Permission from the California Farm Bureau Federation
Christine Souza
Assistant Editor, Ag Alert
A new statewide order affecting how wineries dispose of water could undermine existing regional solutions, winery owners and their advocates say, and would impose new costs...
