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UC Davis health and safety experts will provide farmworker groups training to reduce COVID-19 risk.

The FDA has new findings on an E. coli outbreak last fall that led to 40 illnesses.

Biden wants to more than double the amount of conserved land, and Newsom is already on it.

An executive order signed by President Joe Biden Wednesday seeks to involve the agriculture community in addressing climate change and vastly increase the amount of land conserved in the U.S.

The California Farm Bureau is working with insurance associations and legislative staff to draft a bill aimed at providing basic coverage for farming infrastructure.

With California one of the slowest states for the COVID-19 vaccine rollout, Newsom has a new system to standardize the process.

The State Water Board has unanimously approved a new order that fits all wineries under one regulatory framework.

President Joe Biden’s proposal to provide a path to legal status for illegal immigrants offers farm groups a new chance to persuade Congress to expand the availability of guest workers for agriculture, but winning critical Republican support for a major immigration bill could be harder than ever in the post-Trump era.

California agricultural employers are continuing to adapt to the increasing minimum wage and the rollout of new overtime pay requirements, sometimes by moving away from manual labor to mechanized solutions. The rest of the country is watching closely to see whether these farm labor trends expand.