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Newsom has signed a bill legalizing hemp CBD products, upsetting a coalition of farmers fiercely opposing the measure while winning praise from others for opening new market opportunities.

California has already surpassed $101 million in USDA crop insurance indemnities due to shortages of irrigation water supplies and the numbers will likely climb much higher.

A public education campaign on farm water use is reaching out to more Californians this year.

Gov. Gavin Newsom has appointed Christine Birdsong to serve as undersecretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, the department’s number two position.

More than $90 billion in agriculture spending, including a 50% increase in conservation program funding, is at stake as congressional Democrats wrangle over how to pare back their $3.5 trillion Build Back Better bill to woo critical moderate votes.

Policies preventing Facebook users from selling animals and animal products on the platform have presented a challenge to livestock producers looking for ways to market their products to consumers.

The American Farm Bureau Federation and the National Society for Minorities in Agriculture, Natural Resources and Related Sciences announced Monday that the two groups signed a memorandum of understanding “with the goal of increasing minority involvement in agriculture.”

President Joe Biden has signed proclamations to expand the perimeters of several national monuments, a move that will alter the management of millions of acres of western lands.

Monsanto has won its first trial where a plaintiff alleged exposure to Roundup had caused non-Hodgkin lymphoma.

The Senate confirms Former Rep. Xochitl Torres Small, D-N.M., to serve as the Agriculture Department’s undersecretary for rural development.