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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Sunday, November 10, 2024
Ag leaders are warning that new plant breeding advancements around the globe are threatening the state's market dominance, while production costs are beginning to outweigh the benefits.
State and federal agencies have revised their forecasted water allocations for the coming irrigation season, but water agencies and congress members were disappointed with the conservative approach to protecting endangered fish.
A Cal/OSHA board for setting safety and heath standards was set to approve an indoor heat illness rule on Thursday, but the Department of Finance on Wednesday evening pulled the proposal.
Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack is under fire again from House Republicans over the Commodity Credit Corporation, this time both for suggesting the CCC could be used to supplement farm bill funding but also for refusing to use it to make disaster relief payments to some California producers.
Department of Pesticide Regulation Director Julie Henderson was again in the hot seat at the Capitol, defending her proposal for a 36% bump in the mill fee.
The Department of Pesticide Regulation is pitching lawmakers with a dramatic increase to the mill assessment to steer off insolvency and finance a steady stream of new programs at the department.
A new collection of researchers and scientists at the University of California, Davis, aims to help producers navigate the production of agave plants as more and more turn to the crop to address long-standing drought.
Paul Clark has been tapped as the new executive director of the San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau and GLC Cerritos, an avocado grower-shipper, has brought on Armando Garcia as the director of sustainability.
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