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Newsom signs three labor bills * CDFA expands virus housing * USDA issuing rules for CFAP-2 * Will CR top-up CCC?

Bills on notifying farmworkers of COVID-19 outbreaks, expanding workers' comp benefits for infections and extending family leave time were signed Thursday.

The Agriculture Department is launching a new round of coronavirus relief payments worth up to $14 billion that will be spread over more commodities with new methods of calculating the assistance.

President Donald Trump used a campaign event in Wisconsin to announce the administration's plan to distribute about $13 billion in additional payments under the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program.

Conservationists eye SGMA fallowing * Trump to GOP: Back ‘higher’ COVID aid * Are farm payments ‘socialist?’

USDA’s Food and Nutrition Service has approved California waivers for purchasing foods through the Supplemental Nutrition Assistance Program.

A new research paper outlines potential plans for the farmland to be fallowed in the San Joaquin Valley under SGMA over the next 20 years.

Reps. TJ Cox and John Garamendi have introduced a bill that would expand low-interest, long-term loans for water projects.

The American Farm Bureau and state farm bureaus for California and a dozen other states are putting their support behind a new bill aimed at wildfire mitigation projects.

An ambitious water quality regulation known as Agricultural Order 4.0 sits on shaky legal ground, according to agricultural groups contesting the draft order.