Articles Tagged with ''California agriculture''

The state of America’s citrus industry is a tale of two coasts. Florida’s industry continues to reel from a devastating disease infestation and multiple hurricanes, and California has taken over as No. 1 in U.S. citrus production.

USDA has launched a new initiative to get more of the fruits and vegetables into the marketplace and is taking comments on how to support to the industry.

Lawmakers have launched the first volleys in policy battles over farmworker protections to play out over the coming months.

California’s Farm to School Program is opening up a new market for certain growers and supports locally sourced ,nutritious meals—but growing pains have started to show.

Senate President Pro Tem Mike McGuire has changed up the leadership in the upper chamber of the California Legislature, and Julie Hesketh-Laird is the new CEO of FIVS.

New Ag Census data shows that California had nine of the top 10-ag producing counties in the U.S. in terms of sales, as the number of farmers continues to decline.

California is scaling up its grid infrastructure but the buildout is putting more scrutiny on natural and working lands and collaborations with rural counties.

Wet conditions are putting almond producers in the path of a rare disease that can cause widespread damage to orchards.

Over the last seven years, agriculture has replaced more than 12,000 tractors and other off-road equipment with newer, lower-emission models, dropping daily NOx emissions by more than 11 tons.

The Newsom administration has extended an emergency drought regulation for the Klamath Basin a year after winter storms ended the drought.