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Partisan tensions reached a tipping in the final night of the legislative session, as an argument grew heated over a farmworker bill in the Assembly.

Several proposals aiming to repair critical infrastructure like the Friant-Kern Canal were left behind this year.

A new program provides temporary housing for farm and food processing workers to self-isolate if they are dealing with COVID-19.

The Environmental Protection Agency is releasing a slew of documents today related to pesticide registrations.

“Exceptional growing conditions” for almonds will allow the 2020/21 crop to reach 3 billion pounds this year, which will drop prices to historical lows, according to a new report from RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.

As almond harvest advanced at a feverish pace in the Central Valley during August, high heat, humidity, along with heavy smoke from neighboring wildfires, created some unique challenges.

Sunkist Growers has brought on Anne Goltz as senior manager of business development and Former California Senator Tom Berryhill passed away.

The Trump administration is acting to remove another regulatory barrier to agricultural biotechnology by proposing to streamline EPA's oversight of pest-resistant plants. But there's little sign of progress on reforms to FDA’s regulation of gene-edited animals.

As students return to classrooms — or return to distance learning — the school lunch program is operating under unprecedented uncertainty, which is set to trickle down to commodities such as dairy and produce that rely on the lunch trays to carry a good portion of their demand.