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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, May 19, 2024
The Newsom administration is gaining traction in the Legislature with its proposal to boost the mill assessment. The added revenue would position it to deliver on promises to expedite registrations and evaluations.
The third annual FIRA USA robotics conference will take place in Woodland in October, with growers, startups and venture capitalists talking agtech for speciality crops.
Six years ago the state water board approved an order establishing new nitrogen monitoring and reporting requirements in the Central Valley. Growers in other regions have faced similar mandates.
DWR is sponsoring a bill to fix Gov. Newsom’s executive order on protect drinking water wells and has teamed up with one of the Capitol’s most aggressive lawmakers for reforming state water laws.
Tribes are pushing for more status in water laws to better protect cultural practices. Irrigation districts claim the real intention is to block a set of voluntary agreements for river flows.
Asm. Arambula is pushing to open housing year-round for migrant farmworkers. But some workers said that money could be better spent on workforce development programs.
California farm organizations are divided over a new bill that is proposing to loosen the penalties for ending Williamson Act conservation easements to streamline the deployment of large-scale solar development on retired farmland.