1999 UDAF Press Releases and Articles

• USDA ranks Utah 39th on land development list - view the details here.
  
  
• The Utah Department of Agriculture and Food's Critical Resource Lands Conservation for Agriculture Committee is now taking applications for farm and ranch land conservation projects. The criteria for project selection may be found here, and the application form may be found here.

• Hatch Bill opens new opportunities for Utah meat and poultry processors.

• The Africanized Honey Bee has been detected just 30 miles from the Utah border. Find out more about these dangerous insects.

• Here is the November, 1999 Utah Ag News in Adobe Acrobat format.

• UDAF Commissioner Cary G. Peterson recently ended a successful term as President of the National Association of State Departments of Agriculture (NASDA).

• Utah's ag statistics are now available on the web.

• The American Bankers Association has released a report on key strategies to protect American farming.

• Certain Utah farmers and ranchers who suffered production losses this summer because of wildland fires, severe drought, or tornado may be eligible to apply for Farm Service Agency (FSA) Emergency Loans.

• UDAF's efforts to move Utah's high quality hay to drought plagued farmers and ranchers in the East are underway.

• UDAF's Division of Animal Industry recently hosted a first of its kind symposium in the West on Spongiform Encephalopathies.

• UDAF Commissioner Cary G. Peterson has endorsed legislation that would ensure a reliable framework for implementing the Food Quality Protection Act.

• Celebrate National Farmer's Market Week, August 21 - 28, 1999.

• Deputy Commissioner of Agriculture and Food, Van Burgess retired in August, ending a 31 year career with the state of Utah.

• UDAF Commissioner Cary G. Peterson has declared an insect emergency in several Utah counties and seeks federal funding to fight grasshoppers on an estimated one million acres of farm and ranch land.

• A public hearing was held August 3, 1999 to discuss the new Domestic Elk Hunting Park rule.

• Disaster aid is being sought to fight the effects of the recent Weber-Davis Canal breach.

• Vice President Al Gore honored the UDAF Division of Regulatory Services for successfully eliminating government duplication.
  
  
• UDAF's ag inspectors are now armed with the latest computer technology to help prevent under filling or over charging at the checkout stand.

• The 1999 Gypsy Moth spraying and trapping program came to a successful conclusion on June 9, 1999.

• The 1999 cooperative Gypsy Moth spraying and trapping program is set to begin Tuesday morning, May 25, 1999 in the Knudsen's Corner area of Salt Lake County.

• State and federal agriculture agents recently began treatment of land infested with Mormon crickets.

• The Cricket and Grasshopper Action Committee has cleared the way for poison baiting of Mormon crickets in Utah following the group's meeting on April 15.

• UDAF Commissioner Peterson has formed a Decision and Action Committee to begin the fight against an outbreak of Mormon crickets and grasshoppers in the state.

• UDAF celebrates National Ag Day, 1999.

• Agriculture-related legislation from the 1999 Utah State Legislative Session.

• Here is the April, 1999 Utah Ag News in Adobe Acrobat format.

• Once again, UDAF will join with government agencies and the public to work towards the elimination of gypsy moth populations in Utah.

• Highlights are now available from the 1997 Census of Agriculture for the state of Utah.

• UDAF's Division of Regulatory Services oversees the bottled water industry in Utah.

• Here is the text of Commissioner Peterson's address on food safety at the NASDA mid-year meeting in Washington D.C.

• Click here to view the March, 1999 Ag News in Adobe Acrobat format.

• UDAF is alerting homeowners, farmers and ranchers around the state that public and private funds to fight cricket and grasshopper infestations are limited this year.

• Utah's bottled water is among the safest in the country. Click here to find out why.

• Sheri Einfeldt was honored recently by the Utah Farm Bureau for her creation of the Year of the Farmer public awareness campaign.

• Here is the February, 1999 Utah Ag News in Adobe Acrobat format.

• UDAF has fined a Utah County fruit grower $10,000 and placed him on five years probation for violating provisions of the Utah Pesticide Control Act. Also see the related story below.

• An investigation into worker safety procedures at a Utah County farm by Division of Plant Industry investigators found no conclusive link between the death of a 15 year old employee and pesticides applied by his employer.

• More than 200 Utah farmers and ranchers participated in the first four of 13 Risk Management seminars scheduled throughout Utah in January and February.

• A public hearing was held 10:00 a.m., January 7, 1999, to review proposed amendments to the Japanese Beetle quarantine. Here is the full text of the proposed amendments, in Adobe Acrobat format.

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