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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, August 16, 2024
Len John Richardson, a soft-spoken and pioneering figure in the world of American agricultural journalists, passed away peacefully on March 5, 2024, at his home in Danville, California, according to his family. He was 85.
The document is light on details but would approve several of Newsom’s proposals related to ag, including a dramatic increase and more EJ cost shifts to the pesticide sales tax.
A new report indicates the governor's orders to add new permitting requirements for groundwater wells did little to slow the impacts to domestic drinking water wells.
The state water board is proposing to expand its size and to take on federal duties vacated after the U.S. Supreme Court’s decision limited the Clean Water Act.
Salinas-based Taylor Farms has committed $2 million to a new plant science building at Cal Poly’s College of Agriculture, Food and Environmental Sciences.
Governor Gavin Newsom has tapped the Department of Water Resources Director Karla Nemeth to serve as adviser on the Administration’s water priorities and made other appointments to support the change.