USDA NASS News Release May 19, 2017 HONOLULU, HAWAII – The Census of Agriculture is coming in December and to prepare, the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will visit Hawaii farm and ranch properties now through the end of June. The agency will conduct an area survey across Hawaii to determine ...
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NR17-07 March 15, 2017 HONOLULU – The Hawaii Board of Agriculture yesterday expanded the coffee berry borer (CBB) quarantine to the island of Maui, effective May 1, 2017. The quarantine, which has been in effect on Hawaii Island and Oahu, restricts the interisland movement of coffee and other CBB hosts and requires treatment and other ...
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The Agricultural Resource Management Division has posted a notice for Waimanalo Irrigation System users regarding the lowering of water levels at the Waimanalo Reservoir. To view the notice, click here.
NR17-06 March 1, 2017 HAWAII BEEKEEPERS ALERTED TO REEMERGENCE OF BEE DISEASE HONOLULU — The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) is sending out an alert to Hawaii beekeepers about a new case of a destructive bee disease, American foulbrood (AFB). AFB wiped out much of Hawaii’s honeybee population in the 1930’s and spores of the ...
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NR17-5 Feb. 13, 2017 HONOLULU – A six-foot-long iguana was turned in yesterday by a resident in Waimanalo who found the lizard while doing yard work. The resident contained the animal and called the State’s toll-free Pest Hotline at about noon yesterday and inspectors from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) picked up the iguana ...
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NR17-04 Feb. 2, 2017 HONOLULU – The Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) is investigating the source of coffee plants found at a Home Depot on Kauai earlier this week. Coffee plants from islands infested with the coffee berry borer (CBB) are restricted from being transported to uninfested islands, such as Kauai. Hawaii Island, Oahu and ...
Read More HDOA Quarantines Coffee Plants on Kauai that may have been shipped from Oahu
NR17-03 Jan. 17, 2017 HONOLULU – An illegal snake was turned in over the weekend under the State’s Amnesty Program. The snake was turned in on the evening of Friday, Jan. 13th to the Hawaiian Humane Society on Oahu. Inspectors from the Hawaii Department of Agriculture (HDOA) picked up the snake the next morning and ...
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Provides 10-Year Framework for Invasive Species Prevention NR17-02 Jan. 10, 2017 HONOLULU – The State of Hawai‘i, in a broad coalition of stakeholders led by the Department of Agriculture and the Department of Land and Natural Resources, has finalized the State’s first interagency and comprehensive biosecurity plan to protect Hawai‘i’s agriculture, environment, economy and health. ...
Read More State of Hawaii Ready to Implement Hawaii Interagency Biosecurity Plan
Workshops Scheduled Next Week for Maui Coffee Growers FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE NR17-01 Jan. 5, 2017 HONOLULU – The coffee berry borer (CBB) was detected in December 2016 on a coffee farm in Kipahulu on Maui. A neighbor of the 13-acre farm reported possible CBB to an extension agent at the University of ...
Read More Coffee Berry Borer Confirmed on Maui
Hawaii local food production sales reached $84.4 million, according to the 2015 Local Foods Marketing Practices Survey report released by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS). To view the NASS news release for Hawaii stats, click here. To access the full Local Foods Marketing Practices dataset go to: https://www.agcensus.usda.gov/Publications/2012/Online_Resources/Local_Food/index.php It is the ...
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