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It’s National Pollinator Week, (June 22-28) and a good time to look at what’s happening in the pollinator world.

A bipartisan group of 25 lawmakers sent a letter to Agriculture Secretary Purdue on Monday demanding that USDA include apple growers in the Coronavirus Food Assistance Program after the department decided to keep apple growers out of the program.

UC ANR Vice President Glenda Humiston has three tips to help the state recover from the new recession.

The University of California, Riverside won a $10 million grant to develop artificial intelligence that will increase the environmental and economic stability of agriculture in the Western U.S. and train future researchers.

Farmers and other water users in the Klamath Basin have finally come to the end of the legal road in their attempt to get compensation for water that was reallocated to protect endangered fish in 2001.

USDA imposed sanctions on a firm in Fresno, Calif., for failing to meet its contractual obligations under the Perishable Agricultural Commodities Act.

USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service announced Monday that it will provide eight states with an additional $2.8 million for suppressing high grasshopper and Mormon cricket populations.

PepsiCo and Corteva Agriscience announced Tuesday that collaboration between academics, government officials and members of the private sector has led to the sequencing of the full oat genome for use in open-source applications.

With a new study suggesting the state is in a megadrought, PPIC researchers looked into what that means for water management.

Rosie Cornelius announces retirement and Jeff Huckaby is named the Organic Trade Association’s Organic Farmer of the Year.