Articles Tagged with ''California agriculture''

CARB is considering yet another regulation on converting vehicles to zero-emission engines. But ag and trucking groups are raising alarms over costs, lagging technology and inadequate charging infrastructure.

Mark Munger has been hired as the senior director of marketing for Ocean Mist Farms and Ken Melban has been elevated to vice president of industry affairs and operations at the California Avocado Commission.

Farm groups are rallying members to testify in more regulatory hearings to counter the vocal outcry from environmental justice activists.

Agriculture has planted a new seed in the Central Valley with the nation’s first robotics and automation conference dedicated to specialty crops.

The University of California, Davis announced the largest gift ever by individual donors to support a new ag innovation center and research.

The state is preparing for a warm winter, a worse drought and a chance of biblical floods—offering little reliability for farmers eyeing the next planting season.

As the Newsom administration works with advocates on pesticide notifications, commissioners are raising alarms that it could "ruin a perfectly good system."

The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Farm Equity awarded $5 million in grants to help organizations across the state train farmworkers and beginning farmers.

Agri-Pulse spoke with newly appointed Yana Garcia on environmental justice issues, industry partnerships and pesticide emissions in climate policy.

Agriculture is pushing back on a semi-permanent COVID-19 rule for workplaces, arguing the proposal is not based on accurate data and fails to account for new advancements in addressing the pandemic.