Jan-March 2006 California Agriculture Table of Contents

Jan-March 2006 California Agriculture Table of Contents

COVER: With rates of obesity and nutrition-related diseases skyrocketing, scientists and policy experts have proposed agricultural policies that would encourage consumers to make healthier food choices. In this issue, a panel of experts debates how the next Farm Bill could affect the state’s diversified agriculture with its hundreds of specialty crops, and a policy analyst argues for market incentives to encourage better nutrition among food stamp recipients.

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Issue date: Jan-March 2006

Logo for California Agriculture 60th birthday

Editor’s note: The first issue
of California Agriculture —
a four-page, black-and-white, newsprint tabloid — was published in December 1946.
In honor of the magazine’s 60th anniversary, we will be publishing excerpts from past decades throughout the year.

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News

Editorial
California Agriculture delivers access to peer-reviewed research

Food Policies, Food Choices:
Outlook
Panel debates next Farm Bill’s impact on California

Letters
BSE policy, hort biotech
and panoramic California

News releases

Current

Research and reviews

Food Policies, Food Choices

Market incentives could bring U.S. agriculture and nutrition policies into accord
Miner
Using agricultural subsidy funds to reduce the cost of nutritious foods could encourage food stamp recipients to eat better.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

Central Coast consumers want more food-related information, from safety to ethics
Howard
In focus groups and a survey, consumers wanted information on food safety, nutrition and ethics, and labels were their preferred source.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

Food behavior checklist effectively evaluates nutrition education
Blackburn et al.
A new way of measuring fruit and vegetable intake behavior is faster and simpler than the current method for evaluating group nutrition-education.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

Smaller loads reduce risk of back injuries during wine grape harvest
Meyers et al.
Keeping harvest-tub loads below 50 pounds reduces
the risk of musculoskeletal injuries without significantly affecting productivity.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

New controls investigated
for vine mealybug
Daane et al.
Grape growers can control the vine mealybug more sustainably using less-disruptive insecticides and, potentially, natural enemies and mating disruption.
ABSTRACT | FULL TEXT PDF

2005 Index
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