Articles Tagged with ''California agriculture''

The new $52 million state-of-the-art SMUD Museum of Science and Curiosity in Sacramento offers consumers a chance to learn more about how much water is required to grow their food and how California farmers are working to produce more crop per drop.

Port congestion and poor port performance led to a 17% decline in ag exports, hurting farmers far more than the U.S.-China trade war.

Farm lobbyists are looking ahead to the next year as water battles escalate with the drought and groundwater sustainability plans.

As farmers begin to embrace more agtech, worker protection laws remain a hurdle, along with developing the workforce needed to operate and maintain complex new machinery.

Speaking at California Farm Bureau's annual meeting, President Jamie Johansson called for giving farmers and ranchers more predictability and tools that enable efficient food production as a way to ensure their sustainability and that consumers have a reliable food supply.

In seeking alternatives to open ag burning, some are hoping to convert ag waste into aviation fuel to help decarbonize California.

The Department of Conservation is collecting input from Californians as it drafts guidelines for the new Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program it will launch with $50 million of state funding next spring.

As California swings from drought to floods, scientists fear the state is due for a megastorm on par with the great flood of 1862.

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will fund three projects aimed at improving water quality in three watersheds in 2022.

DPR is taking public comment through February on pesticide-treated seeds to inform future regulatory actions.