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Farms win USDA grants to help hire, retain workers

06/14/24 1:14 PM By Philip Brasher

USDA is awarding $50 million to farms, ranches, labor contractors and other entities to hire and retain farmworkers, including by encouraging the legal import of laborers from Central America.

Senate pitches $7.5B drought and water plan

04/29/22 8:05 AM By Brad Hooker

Senate Democratic leaders on Thursday unveiled a budget plan for spending an estimated $68 billion surplus.

Daybreak: Newsom extends farmworker housing provision

12/15/20 10:14 AM By Brad Hooker

Borgeas to chair Senate Ag * NC regulator emerges as EPA candidate * Leaders look to wrap up stimulus * Farm groups give Biden trade advice

Four questions for the next Assembly ag chair

10/21/20 7:41 AM By Brad Hooker

In the midst of a three-week ag tour, Asm. Robert Rivas spoke about new insights, his labor and housing bills and a childhood in farmworker housing.

Daybreak: CA Grown kicks off 'Happy Hour at Home' campaign

09/18/20 1:31 PM By Brad Hooker

Newsom signs three labor bills * CDFA expands virus housing * USDA issuing rules for CFAP-2 * Will CR top-up CCC?

Rivas named chair of Assembly Ag Committee

09/14/20 11:05 AM By Brad Hooker

Since taking office, Rivas has pushed through labor-sponsored bills for farmworkers, with fierce opposition from industry.

State expands virus housing for farmworkers

09/05/20 3:46 PM By Brad Hooker

Santa Barbara County has joined the administration’s new Housing for the Harvest program.

Bill on H-2A worker rights raises new arguments over housing

07/31/20 1:39 PM By Brad Hooker

A bill aimed at informing H-2A guest workers of their housing and labor rights passed another committee this week.

Survey finds pandemic is ‘amplifying’ farmworker issues

07/29/20 10:51 AM By Brad Hooker

Farmworker organizations this week released the results of a new study aimed at understanding how the COVID-19 pandemic has been impacting farmworkers.

Daybreak: State aid for Central Valley

07/28/20 11:34 AM By Brad Hooker

$100B in state stimulus * GOP goes broad on coronavirus relief * CFAP Round One payments lag

Open Mic: Claire Babineaux Fontenot

This week’s guest on Open Mic is Claire Babineaux-Fontenot, CEO of Feeding America. Farmers continue to help feed the hungry, but the number of Americans who are hungry and food insecure is greater today than during the Covid pandemic. Babineaux-Fontenot says the food lines may have moved back inside the buildings, but the need for food continues to grow as contributions are down and federal commodity donations have decreased. Babineaux-Fontenot says federal nutrition programs should be amended to avoid food “cliffs” and help individuals transition away from assistance programs.

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Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Nov. 22, 2024: Sen. Jerry Moran on disaster aid, farm bill

The race is on to pass a farm bill extension before the end of the year after Senate Ag Committee Chair Debbie Stabenow released her farm bill text this week and it was rejected by Republicans. We asked Sen. Jerry Moran, R-Kan., about the future of the farm bill and prospects for a package of market loss relief and disaster aid in December.

Then, NASDA’s RJ Karney and NFU’s Aaron Shier discuss what agriculture can expect from the Trump administration.

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