PUBLICATIONS AND REPORTS
- Agriculture Excerpt from Governor Schwarzenegger's Two-Year Review
- Agricultural Biotechnology Publications
- Annual Report 2007: CDFA - Plant Health and Pest Prevention Services (PHPPS)
- Biological Control of Arthropod Pests in California Agriculture (Interim Report)
- California Agriculture - Statistical Highlights 2007 (brochure)
- California Agricultural Resource Directory 2007
- Critical Evaluation of Augmentative Biological Control (report)
- Demand and Supply Elasticities for Major California Crops (report)
- Economic Importance of Organophosphates in California (report)
- Economics and Adoption of Conservation Biological Control
- Evaluation of Fumigation and Surface Seal Methods on Fumigant Emissions in an Orchard Replant Field (Abstract)
- Field Tests of Surface Seals and Soil Treatments to Reduce Fumigant Emissions from Shank Injection of Telone C35
- How to Reduce Bee Poisoning from Pesticides
- NFACT (report)
- Nurserymen and Others Licensed to Sell Nursery Stock in California (Directory):
- Organic Vineyard Management in California (research article)
- Pierce's Disease Control Program Annual Report to the Legislature (2006)
- Preventing Biological Pollution: The Mediterranean Fruit Fly Exclusion Program
- Protecting California from Biological Pollution (January 2004)
- Research Publications (Plant Pest Diagnostics Laboratory)
- Socio-Economic Analysis of the North American Commercial Natural Enemy Industry and Implications for Augmentative Biological Control
- Surface Seals Reduce 1,3-D and Chloropicrin Emissions in Field Tests
- Vineyard Managers and Researchers Seek Sustainable Solutions For Mealybugs, A Changing Pest Complex
Field Tests of Surface Seals and Soil Treatments to Reduce Fumigant Emissions from Shank Injection of Telone C35
(Abstract)
The following abstract describes new results from the USDA/ARS study--partially funded by by CDFA's Office of Pesticide Consultation & Analysis.--that has been examining ways to minimize fumigant emissions under DPR's volatile organic compound (VOC) regulatory structure."
Abstract
Vineyard Managers and Researchers Seek Sustainable Solutions For Mealybugs, A Changing Pest Complex
UC Berkeley entomologist Kent Daane and others review vineyard
mealybug pests and their natural enemies, discussing current trends
in biological control and potential new research. The project was
partially funded by CDFA's Office of Pesticide Consultation & Analysis.
More
Demand and Supply Elasticities for Major California Crops
Funded by the Pesticide Consultation office, this milestone UC Davis report provides the first systematic recalibration in a generation of demand and supply elasticities for the principal California crops. Elasticity measurements are the essential starting point for regulatory impact analysis, since they gauge the responsiveness of consumers and producers to price changes which regulations often impose through unavoidable production cost increases. More
Economics and Adoption of Conservation Biological Control
Conservation biological control involves improving the conditions for natural enemies in agricultural systems. Authors from Santa Clara University and Lincoln University in New Zealand examine the economics of this relatively new discipline. The study was partially funded by CDFA's Pesticide Consultation office. Abstract Full Text on Author's Website
Evaluation of Fumigation and Surface Seal Methods on Fumigant Emissions in an Orchard Replant Field (Abstract)
The following abstract, from the 3/1/08 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, encapsulates the latest results to emerge from the CDFA pesticide consultation office's USDA/ARS fumigant emissions-reduction research contract.
Abstract
Socio-Economic Analysis of the North American Commercial Natural Enemy Industry and Implications for Augmentative Biological Control
California growers practicing augmentative biological control rely
on the commercial insectary business for natural enemies. Researchers
at Santa Clara University and UC Berkeley report on their analysis of
this industry as part of the CDFA Office of Pesticide Consultation and Analysis biological control project. Abstract Full Text on Author's Website
Interim Report: Biological Control of Arthropod Pests in California Agriculture
Researchers at UC Berkeley and Santa Clara University have produced a preliminary overview of the current status and future potential of biological control techniques in managing arthropod pests in California agriculture, a topic of rising importance due to persistent regulatory pressure on conventional insecticides. This ongoing study is being funded by CDFA's Pesticide Consultation office. more...
California Agricultural Resource Directory 2007
This directory presents the most recent information and data on the performance and output of agriculture in California. As the statistics and figures demonstrate, California's farmers and ranchers are real visionaries who have succeeded in developing new and better ways to produce food and fiber of the highest quality and with the greatest care for the environment. more...
Research Publications (Plant Pest Diagnostics Lab)
The scientists in the Plant Pest Diagnostics Branch perform active research programs. This site features the publications of the current scientific staff, historical publications out of the Branch, databases served from these programs, interactive identification tools, pest sheets, Branch Annual Reports, and the California Plant Pest and Disease Report. more...
more...
How to Reduce Bee Poisoning from Pesticides
CDFA's Office of Pesticide Consultation & Analysis provided
a modest sum to help defray the cost of this Pacific Northwest Extension publication outlining steps that growers can take to minimize harmful effects of pesticide
applications on bees. more...(PDF)
Surface Seals Reduce 1,3-Dichloropropene and Chloropicrin Emissions in Field Tests (Abstract)
Here is an abstract from an article published in the 1/9/07 issue of the Journal of Environmental Quality, which summarizes the latest USDA/ARS research into ways to
reduce fumigant emissions in California production agriculture. Such research is particularly time-urgent given DPR's unfolding crackdown on pesticide volatile organic compound (VOC)
emissions. The article's authors are principal investigators of a long-term research contract with CDFA's pesticide consultation office. more...
Organic Vineyard Management in California
As part of a larger, ongoing CDFA-funded study
of the role of biological control in arthropod
pest management, University of California experts
report on the status of IPM in organic vineyards. more...(PDF)
Statistical Highlights Brochure: Ensuring
a Safe, Affordable and Abundant Food Supply
California’s 76,000 farms and ranches received $31.4 billion for their output, down from the all-time high of $32.8 billion reached in 2005. more...(PDF)
Agriculture Excerpt From Governor Schwarzenegger's Two-Year
Review: "Restoring the
Golden State."
"California's unique blend
of fertile soils and temperate climates, combined
with cutting-edge technology, pioneering research
and marketplace innovations, has helped create
the most sophisticated agricultural production
and distribution systems in the world." more...(PDF)
Annual
Report 2007: CDFA - Plant Health and Pest Prevention
Services (PHPPS)
The goal of the PHPPS division
is to prevent the entry, spread and establishment
of invasive plant pests that could be detrimental
to the State’s agriculture, public, and natural resources.
more...(PDF)
Report: A Critical Evaluation of Augmentative Biological Control
Two UC Berkeley entomologists
employ a literature review to assess the feasibility
of augmentative biological control as an alternative
to conventional, insecticide-based pest control.
The project was funded by CDFA's Office of Pesticide
Consultation & Analysis.
more...(PDF)
Pierce's
Disease Program Annual Report to the Legislature
(2006)
The Pierce’s Disease Control Program (PDCP), in its sixth year of existence, is realizing that no two years are quite the same. Each year presents its own challenges.
This past year glassy-winged sharpshooter (GWSS) populations increased, and new infestations required additional rapid response programs. In addition, the Pierce’s Disease and
Glassy-winged Sharpshooter Board (PD/GWSS Board) selected a research director and the nursery treatment pilot program continued to generate valuable efficacy data.
more...(PDF)
Protecting California from Biological Pollution (January 2004)
Biological Pollution: "The unintended introduction
of exotic and invasive strains and species." A safe food supply is a precious commodity. The
California Department of Food and Agriculture(CDFA) is required
by law to uphold many different responsibilities – including
a core charge for the exclusion of plant and animal
pests and diseases. The early identification and
the prevention of entry of pests and diseases is
one of our most significant challenges. Failure
to meet this challenge presents one of the greatest
threats to public health and safety and California’s
environment.
more...(PDF)
Agricultural Biotechnology Publications:
Senate
Bill 2065 (Costa, Chapter 589, Statutes of 2000)
required the creation of the Food
Biotechnology Task Force (comprised
of the Secretaries of the Health and Welfare
Agency,
the Technology,
Trade and Commerce Agency, and the Department
of Food and Agriculture) in order to identify
and analyze emerging food biotechnology issues
considered of primary importance to the state.
The Department contracted with the California
Council on Science and Technology (CCST),
to prepare a scientific overview assessing
current research on food biotechnology. The
Department submitted this manuscript to the
Legislature in July 2002. The
complete report, "Benefits
and Risks of Food Biotechnology," is
available on the CCST Web site. A
Food Foresight Analysis of Agricultural Biotechnolgy:
A Report to the Legislature (PDF):
This final report was submitted to the Legislature
in May 2003. It builds upon the previous
scientific overview and includes an analysis
of the emerging food biotechnology issues
of primary importance to Californians. This
report includes input from the Food Biotechnology
Advisory Committee, consisting of representatives
of consumer groups, environmental organizations,
the biotechnology industry, farmers, ranchers,
food processors, organic farmers, policymakers,
and academic experts.
Preventing Biological Pollution: The Mediterranean
Fruit Fly Exclusion Program
One of the world's most destructive pests affecting
the food supply is the Mediterranean fruit fly,
or Medfly (Ceratitis capitata). Given the
high societal costs of responding to Medfly infestations
in California, significant efforts go towards combating
this special threat. CDFA's Medfly Exclusion Program
focuses on the Los Angeles Basin because its many
ports of entry receive millions of international
visitors and products from infested nations. The
area is also home to periodic produce smuggling
operations.
more...(PDF)
Report:
The Economic Importance of Organophosphates In
California
CDFA offers to interested
readers this University of California, Berkeley,
report analyzing the economic importance of organophosphate
(OP) insecticides in California agriculture.
Foreword
(PDF)
Report
(PDF)
Appendix
(PDF)
2008 Directory: Nurserymen and Others Licensed to
Sell Nursery Stock in California:
To view the directory online
or for information on how you can order this directory
in electronic (CD-ROM) format, follow this link
to Nursery Services more...