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The House Agriculture Committee launches an in-depth examination of farm bill programs this week, starting with a hearing on conservation spending, and the full House will debate a competitiveness bill that seeks to bolster trade remedies and address trade with developing countries.

CARB staff reported that open agricultural burning in the San Joaquin Valley dropped 25% in 2021 compared to the prior year.

The California Senate has approved a measure requiring corporations with annual revenues exceeding $1 billion to disclose their climate footprints.

A series of climate plans are raising conversations about reducing conventional pesticides to lower emissions and ramping up organic farming to capture carbon.

DPR has offered a glimpse of regulations to come for four controversial neonics.

The National Wildlife Federation and Xerces Society are celebrating a dramatic rebound in the number of western monarch butterflies, but call for more work to be done.

Ahsan Faheem has been elevated to vice president of specialty at Vision Produce and Allison Moore has been promoted to executive vice president of the Fresh Produce Association of the Americas.

The state Senate has passed the latest effort to slow the production of single-use plastic packaging.

Some $90 billion in agriculture and child nutrition spending that’s part of the stalled Build Back Better bill is in play as the White House and congressional Democrats disassemble the $1.7 trillion measure and possibly move some of the funding into other legislation.

Interest, but also concern, is rising over three pipelines planned for the Midwest to capture carbon from ethanol plants and sequester it, which advocates for the projects say is a crucial step for meeting climate change goals.