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Wild Fires Impact Almond Drying

in Agriculture/Food & Drink

The California wildfires blowing smoke all over the central valley is having an impact on almonds drying on the orchard floor.

Roger Duncan is a UCANR farm advisor for nut crops in Stanislaus County. He said it was quite dark out there during those afternoons. And it did have an impact on those drying almonds.

“It did it, it had a pretty big effect early on the earliest Nonpareil before these fires started, they were drying very nicely on the ground,” said Duncan. “Things were moving along quickly and then once the smoke came, it became cooler and more humid and they just weren’t drying as well,” he said

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Turlock High Grad Crowned Dairy Princess

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Alyce Silva of Turlock was selected as the 2020 Dairy Princess for the California Milk Advisory Board’s District 6 in a virtual crowning event held June 20.

Silva is the daughter of David and Nelia Silva of Turlock. She is a 2019 graduate of Turlock High School. She is a full-time student at Modesto Junior College majoring in Agriculture Business and Agriculture Sciences, where she is a member of the Young Farmers and Ranchers Club.

Silva had the honor of representing the dairy industry as the 2019-2020 District 6 1st Alternate Dairy Princess. She is a past member of her high school’s FFA program where she showed dairy cattle at the Stanislaus County Fair, and served as chapter reporter. She plans to transfer to California State University, Fresno and major in Agricultural Communications.

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Turlock Farmers Market Celebrates Opening Day

in Agriculture/Business & Economy

As businesses throughout Turlock begin to reopen with precautions during the coronavirus pandemic, one of the community’s favorite places to gather and shop returned to Main Street on Saturday with the new season of the Turlock Certified Farmers Market.

The downtown market filled with locally grown produce and handcrafted goods typically opens during the first weekend of May, but stay-at-home orders throughout the state forced the TCFM Board to postpone the outdoor shopping event until June. It was TCFM Board President Brandon Follett’s hope that despite nearby markets starting back up at that time, a later opening date would put TCFM in step with other downtown businesses as they were slowly allowed to reopen.

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Fire Rips Through Keyes Egg Plant

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Strong winds helped fan the flames on a major fire that consumed a west Keyes agriculture industrial building used to process poultry eggs Thursday afternoon.

Multiple fire agencies including Ceres, Keyes, Hughson, Turlock and Modesto responded to the fire which broke at 12:59 p.m. at the Gemperle Farms facility on Bystrum Road south of Bronco Winery and east of Crows Landing Road. Flames broke out in the northern most of two buildings, sending up a large plume of smoke visible from Modesto to Delhi.

Gemperle Farms said they lost 280,000 chickens in the fire. No human injuries were reported.

“The building was completely involved when I arrived,” said Ceres Fire Battalion Chief Jeff Serpa, “so anything that was inside is going to perish.”

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How the City of Turlock Got Its Name in California

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TURLOCK, Calif. — Turlock’s name is probably the only thing the city doesn’t owe to agriculture for its history.

The city, 20 minutes south of Modesto, owes its name to “Bred in the Bone,” a serial novel from Harper’s Weekly Magazine and two brothers struggling to name the town, according to Scott Atherton, historian for the Turlock Historical Society.

Atherton said the name’s origin boils down to Henry Lander reading a book in a magazine, seeing the name “Turlock,” and pitching it to his brother as their third naming effort.

Contrary to the story, some might have heard growing up, the town’s name doesn’t come from a translation of “Turlough,” or “Dry Lake.”

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Praying for Turlock

Over 100 community members gathered on South Broadway Saturday night, not for the downtown nightlife or a block party, but

California Almond Community Announces Five-Point Pollinator Protection Plan

in Agriculture/Food & Drink

MODESTO, Calif., Jan. 14, 2020 /PRNewswire/ — Join Richard Waycott, President & CEO of the Almond Board of California (ABC), Dr. Josette Lewis, Director of Agricultural Affairs at ABC, and bee expert Dr. Gordon Wardell as they announce the California almond community’s five-point Pollinator Protection Plan, reaffirming the industry’s long-term commitment to protecting and improving honey bee health. Learn about the key areas of the Pollinator Protection Plan, along with what farmers and their beekeeper partners are doing as we approach the annual almond bloom in February.

1 Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations, Why Bees Matter. 2 USDA-ERS. Land Use, Land Cover and Pollinator Health: A Review and Trend Analysis. July 2017. 3 Gene Brandi. Vice President, American Beekeeping Federation.
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Global Almond Ingredients Market Research to Witness Increased Revenue Growth Owing to Rapid Increase in Demand || Barry Callebaut, Olam International, Archer Daniels Midland Company

in Agriculture/Business & Economy

Market Analysis: Global Almond Ingredients Market

Global almond ingredients market is undergoing with a healthy CAGR of 11.50% in the forecast period of 2019-2026. The report contains data of the base year 2018 and historic year 2017. The factors responsible for this growth in the market value are rise in consumption of food & beverage in the various developing regions and increasing awareness about nutritional benefits of almond

Few of the major competitors currently working in the global almond ingredients are Royal Nut Company, TREEHOUSE ALMONDS, The Wonderful Company LLC, Kanegrade Ltd., SAVENCIA SA, BORGES AGRICULTURAL & INDUSTRIAL NUTS, S.A; JOHN B. SANFILIPPO & SON, INC., Blue Diamond Growers, Barry Callebaut, Olam International, Archer Daniels Midland Company, Sahale Snacks, Inc., The Hershey Company., Russell Stover Chocolates, LLC,  Sanitarium,   Bob’s Red Mill Natural Foods, Döhler, OLOMOMO Nut Company., Jonny Almond Nut Company., Helios Ingredients and among others.

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Turlock Boy, 16, Killed After Crashing ATV While Working in Orchard

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MODESTO (CBS13) – A Turlock High School student was killed after crashing an ATV he was riding while working at an orchard in the Modesto area, authorities say.

The incident happened on Sept. 7 near Hawkins and Keyes roads. California Highway Patrol says, around 4 p.m., officers and medics responded to a reported ATV accident in an orchard.

Officers found that a 16-year-old boy had been ejected from an ATV that rolled over. The boy was pronounced dead at the scene, officers say.

Drugs or alcohol were not factors in the accident, CHP says.

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Lawsuit Challenges Federal Predator Control Program in Northern California Counties

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Three environmental groups filed a lawsuit Tuesday in federal court seeking to halt part of a controversial government program that kills predators, including coyotes, bears and mountain lions, in ways that the groups allege are cruel, outdated and ineffective.

The lawsuit challenges a U.S. Department of Agriculture program called Wildlife Services that uses leg-hold traps, strangulation snares, poisons and guns to kill animals at taxpayer expense, mostly to benefit livestock operations.

In 2018, the program killed nearly 1.5 million animals nationwide, including 26,441 in California, according to USDA records.

The statewide toll included 3,826 coyotes, 859 beavers, 170 foxes, 105 black bears and 83 mountain lions along with 5,675 birds.

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For Undocumented Workers, Demanding Better Work Conditions Could Mean Deportation

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The cow kicked hard, and fast, straight into Luis Alberto Echeverría’s chest. It was 2008, and Echeverría said he was prepping the cow for milking at the dairy farm he worked at in Turlock, California, east of San Francisco. The cow’s kick left him unconscious. 

“When I came to, one of my co-workers was standing over me, fanning me, saying, ‘Wake up! Wake up!’” Echeverría said.

But when he told his boss, Joe Sallaberry, about what happened, he was ordered to keep working — through any pain. Sallaberry, who owned the dairy farm, did not believe he had been injured, and was still doubtful even after Echeverría returned from a hospital with painkillers and a doctor’s note saying he had a fractured rib, and needed rest.

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