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Members of California water and agricultural communities have been applauding a number of provisions related to water infrastructure within the omnibus funding bill President Trump recently signed into law.

New limits for ratcheting down the burning of agricultural waste in the San Joaquin Valley went into effect on January 1.

Policy experts hope a new era in collaborative management will offer inspiration for the ongoing and complex negotiations over Colorado River allocations amid a historic and deepening drought.

Two years of MFP payments only covered roughly half of the net losses to California commodities, according to a new paper by UC Davis economists.

Minimum wage is now as much as $14 per hour while ag overtime is triggered after 8.5 hours per day or 45 hours per week.

USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service is gearing up to provide technical and financial assistance to help farmers and ranchers in California make improvements in their operations that can lead to improved air quality.

Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Haig Baghdassarian as the deputy secretary and chief counsel at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement has hired Kevin Watson as a new compliance officer.

Tom Vilsack is expected to have little trouble getting confirmed to another term as agriculture secretary. It's a good thing, because he'll have a lot to do the minute he walks in the door, starting with implementation of the COVID package just enacted.

Many states are falling behind in their early projections of how quickly they will be able to deploy COVID-19 vaccines, and many are still working to determine where ag workers will be on their vaccination prioritization schedules.

Even as President-elect Joe Biden pushes for electric vehicles, the biofuel industry argues he can also make progress on his climate goals by expanding biofuel usage mandates, embracing a low carbon fuel policy and increasing vehicle emissions standards.