Articles Tagged with ''Almond Board of California''

Jenny Lester Moffitt was confirmed by the Senate last week to become undersecretary for marketing and regulatory programs at USDA, and the Bureau of Reclamation’s California Great-Basin Region has selected Joshua Israel to be the new science division manager for the Bay-Delta Office.

Gov. Newsom appoints Craig Scholer to be the deputy secretary for legislative affairs at the California Environmental Protection Agency.

As drought grips many of California’s prime agricultural areas, its two top-grossing crops are positioned well to pull through, much as they did during the last prolonged dry spell in the mid-2010s. Grapes and almonds, which since 2004 have been the state's top sellers, both have some natural drought tolerance thanks to their origins in the Mediterranean climate where recurring aridity is expected. But in California, their success is also tied to irrigation.

A bill in the Assembly that would encourage farmers to provide forage and habitat for pollinators through incentives grants is facing a key vote in the Appropriations Committee on Wednesday.

The California Pollinator Coalition is broadening its collaboration between agriculture and conservation groups to improve the health, diversity and number of pollinators on working lands.

The Almond Board of California hired Michael Roots and Bill Capsalis has been appointed executive director of Naturally Boulder.

President-elect Joe Biden has named the people charged with heading up the transition efforts at different government departments, and the USDA and EPA rosters include a deep slate of Obama administration alums.

Almond Board of California has hired Drew Wolter as the new pest management senior specialist and Agri-Pulse brings on Danielle Brinkmann as a western sales associate.

One of the nation’s top snack companies plans to exclusively source its almonds from “bee-friendly farmland” across the globe by 2025.