Tag: Farming

Foster Farms is holding “on-the-spot” interviews for their busy season today. As Turlockers brace themselves for the upcoming holiday season, businesses ...

Two competing farmers’ market road closures requests put the City of Turlock in an awkward position. The Golden State Farmers’ ...

Authorities are calling for a quarantine on citrus plants due to a bug that carries a tree-killing disease being found ...

As campus and community volunteers prepare for the second annual One Purpose campaign at California State University, Stanislaus, a local ...

City of Turlock employees and Mayor Gary Soiseth joined students from Brown Elementary School’s ASES After School program to plant ...

Despite an ongoing drought, the California Almond Board recently announced a record almond objective crop forecast for the 2014-15 season. ...

The ongoing drought continues to affect local farmers, starved for irrigation water this summer.But industry experts will be on hand ...

Thanks to some much-needed rain, the Turlock Irrigation District will once again delay the start of irrigation season. “We have decided ...

The Stanislaus County Fair has announced deadlines to sign up to compete in the Independent Junior Livestock category. Entry deadlines for ...

Packed with vitamin E, protein, magnesium, heart-healthy fiber and a tasty crunch, there is plenty to love about almonds. Turlock’s ...

The 2014 Farm Bill was signed into law Friday morning, representing the most significant farm policy reform in U.S. history. ...

A standing room only crowd packed the Turlock Irrigation District boardroom – and spilled outside of it – as water-starved ...

Should rainfall be anything but torrential for the remainder of the year, TID farmers should expect to receive a bare-bones ...

A proposed multimillion dollar surface water treatment plant, which would treat Tuolumne River water to create drinking water for Turlock, ...

With two months of the 2013-2014 water year in the books, rainfall is failing to keep up with historical averages. ...

The Turlock Irrigation District took the wraps off of its proposed 2014 budget Tuesday, projecting essentially flat spending and no ...

The Turlock Irrigation District expects to employ two fewer people next year and dip into reserves to balance its budget, ...

For 22 years, the Turlock Irrigation District has engaged in a cloud seeding program to maximize winter rainfall – and ...

After nearly four years of work, the Turlock Irrigation District expects to submit its draft application to relicense Don Pedro ...

U.S. Rep. Jeff Denham (R-Turlock) will represent Turlock's interests in hammering out the final version of this year's farm bill, ...

It's official: the 2013 Turlock Irrigation District season has come to an end. The shutdown started at 4 p.m. last ...

Three Foster Farms plants narrowly escaped closure last night, delivering the U.S. Department of Agriculture with plans to address a ...

The United States Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service is ordering Foster Farms to clean up its act ...

Waiting for a sign that fall is finally here – other than the omnipresent pumpkin spice lattes, of course? Turlock's ...

Though some farmers have requested an extension, the Turlock Irrigation District is moving forward with plans to end the 2013 ...

A past Turlock Irrigation District water distribution operator and current candidate for the TID board says the district is wasting ...

The Rim Fire has severely burned soil in about 12 percent of the Turlock Irrigation District watershed, reducing or eliminating ...

With just one month remaining until the end of the Turlock Irrigation District's 2013 irrigation season, growers shouldn't expect any ...

After a packed agenda a week ago, the Turlock Irrigation District Board of Directors will undertake an extremely light agenda ...

A large marijuana grow, hidden amongst 1,200 acres of almond trees near Denair, was busted by Stanislaus County Sheriff's Deputies ...

The Turlock Irrigation District will not execute an agreement to purchase irrigation water from the Modesto Irrigation District, TID staff ...

The Turlock Irrigation District enacted a sweeping set of new penalties for irrigation water thieves earlier this month, but it ...

Blue Diamond Growers opened the doors of its state-of-the-art Turlock almond processing facility on Tuesday, bringing hundreds of jobs to ...

Facing down a limited water supply, two consecutive critically dry years, and farmers' complaints of dying crops, Turlock Irrigation District ...

The Turlock Irrigation District could purchase as much as 7,000 acre-feet of surface water from the Modesto Irrigation District on ...

A new, no-nonsense set of penalties awaits growers who steal water from Turlock Irrigation District canals: thousands of dollars in ...

The Turlock Irrigation District Board of Directors is set to recognize retiring employees, create a new pump district, and hear ...

Farmers say a State Water Resources Control Board proposal to send vast quantities of water down local rivers, reducing available ...

In a battle between fish and farmers for Tuolumne River water, the Turlock Irrigation District believes it has science on ...

When the Turlock Irrigation District's 2013 irrigation season kicked-off last week, it came with a flood – both of water, ...

A nearly $1.2 million project to move a mountain – quite literally – to ensure the safety of the Turlock ...

Just days remain until growers in the Turlock Irrigation District will start receiving this year's water allotment. TID staff expect ...

TURLOCK – On Tuesday, the Turlock Irrigation District’s Board of Directors approved a resolution to begin the 2009 irrigation season ...