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Farmers' outlook improved modestly last month ahead of the Russian invasion of Ukraine, but growers remain worried about soaring input costs, according to a monthly survey.

The regulations would impact more than 70,000 growers and cost them as much as $166 million.

President Joe Biden delivers his state of the union message this week amid a world crisis that is further clouding his political agenda, while congressional appropriators face a March 11 deadline for finalizing their 2022 spending legislation five months into the fiscal year.

The Environmental Protection Agency is standing by its decision to revoke all chlorpyrifos tolerances, clearing the way for a court to decide whether to allow continued use of the insecticide.

President Joe Biden is nominating to the Supreme Court appellate judge Ketanji Brown Jackson, a history-making pick who once upheld mandatory country of origin labeling requirements for meat.

A UC Merced study estimates the ag sector lost $1.1 billion and nearly 9,000 jobs directly from the drought.

State lawmakers concerned about domestic wells going dry are looking for policies to give more regulatory teeth to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.

The California Water Commission last week debated the next steps in the Proposition 1 approval process for water storage projects now that seven projects have met a major milestone.