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California’s smallest farmers crippled by ‘regressive’ ag order

11/02/22 8:05 AM By Brad Hooker

A controversial water quality regulation is levying a disproportionate burden on California’s smallest growers, who are often low-income and non-English speakers, according to advocates. Yet, others push for an even faster adoption timeline.

Nitrate order could hit organic farmers hardest

12/10/20 11:31 AM By Brad Hooker

The president of Driscoll’s of the Americas said a new nitrate regulation in the Salinas Valley will be harder for organic producers to meet than for conventional farmers.

Daybreak West: Wheeler fires back at Newsom and Garcetti

10/28/20 10:57 AM By Brad Hooker

State studies canal needs * Judge denies environmental lawsuits * Critics plan new challenge to dicamba * Electric vehicles worry ag retailers

Judge denies environmentalists in farm water lawsuits

10/28/20 10:48 AM By Brad Hooker

A state judge has rejected three petitions by environmental groups challenging a 2018 regulation approved by the State Water Board.

Daybreak West: Ag Order seen as a heavy lift

10/27/20 11:47 AM By Brad Hooker

More Prop. 65 listings * EPA dicamba decision likely today

Water Board sees Ag Order as a heavy lift

10/27/20 11:24 AM By Brad Hooker

The Central Coast Water Board has held two more indepth meetings to review the many details and concerns of the proposed Ag Order 4.0.

Disease, wildfires and rats: Water quality regulation raises more issues for growers

09/30/20 9:25 AM By Brad Hooker

Farmers worry that a regulation requiring vegetative buffers along waterways could create habitat for invasive pests as well as fuel for wildfires.

Water board exceeds its authority with Ag Order 4.0, argue farm groups

09/16/20 9:29 AM By Brad Hooker

An ambitious water quality regulation known as Agricultural Order 4.0 sits on shaky legal ground, according to agricultural groups contesting the draft order.

Ag Order 4.0 could cut $700 million from the Salinas Valley lettuce market

07/15/20 7:28 AM By Brad Hooker

A new study shows how Ag Order 4.0 could have disastrous impacts on both growers and the Salinas Valley economy.

Daybreak: Ag Order 4.0 under discussion today

06/02/20 8:59 AM By Brad Hooker

VND eradicated in CA * LGMA targets grazing * House’s ag relief price tag

Agri-Pulse Open Mic: Kip Eideberg, Association of Equipment Manufacturers

This week’s Open Mic guest is Kip Eideberg, Senior Vice-President Government and Industry Relations for the Association of Equipment Manufacturers. Like the industries they serve, equipment manufacturers are familiar with the cyclical turns in farming, forestry, construction and mining. Eideberg says higher interest rates, a lack of trade agreements and sluggish economies around the globe and in the U.S. are proving challenging for the customers to make capital purchases. Eideberg is hopeful Congress will bring a new farm bill in the Lame Duck session or at least early next year. He says tax policy will also be critical next year as both industry and customers need amended policy on deductions for research as well as depreciation.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 1, 2024: WFP Laureate Cary Fowler at Borlaug Dialogue

2024 World Food Prize laureates Cary Fowler and Geoffrey Hawtin were honored for their life work protecting crop biodiversity at the Borlaug International Dialogue. We asked Fowler about the creation of the Svalbard Global Seed Vault.

Then, Jim Snee, CEO of Hormel, and his wife Tammy discuss Hormel’s Hometown Food Security Project, and Manuel Otero, IICA director general, spoke on farmers’ challenges to adopt new technology.

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