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The state water board has approved an emergency regulation enabling the agency to curtail senior water rights along two key watersheds in Northern California.

Arizona farmers are bracing for water cuts next year after the Bureau of Reclamation announced a historic shortage at Lake Mead, which collects water from the Lower Colorado River Basin.

A new United Nations report underscores the grim reality that extreme heat poses for crops, livestock and farmworkers.

The challenge of expanding and refining the use of artificial intelligence to resolve challenges in agriculture is drawing increased state and federal funding to researchers in the San Joaquin Valley.

During a visit to California Tuesday, EPA Administrator Michael Regan reiterated the Biden administration’s commitment to a multiagency effort to increase the resiliency of farms, ranches and communities to wildfire and climate change.

PepsiCo, the company in charge of 23 food and beverage brands, announced Tuesday that it hopes to become “Net Water Positive” by 2030.

West coast seafood industry groups are asking the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service to consider the impact on near-shore fisheries as they prepare a congressionally ordered report on the reintroduction of sea otters.

Biofuel industry and corn farmers are asking the D.C. Circuit Court of Appeals for a new hearing on a ruling that struck down a 2019 decision by the Environmental Protection Agency to allow year-around E15 sales.

Bayer has filed a petition with the Supreme Court requesting the review of a Ninth Circuit Court of Appeals decision that upheld a $25 million award to a California man who alleges exposure to Roundup caused his Non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The nation’s largest beef industry group says it wants to demonstrate the sector’s ability to achieve climate neutrality in less than 20 years.