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The Department of Agriculture’s Food Safety and Inspection Service has announced 172 American poultry slaughter and processing facilities that can export their products to China.

The CEA Food Safety Coalition named Marni Karlin as executive director and The California Association of Winegrape Growers elected a new board officers and directors.

Evacuation pens for wildfires * Warren makes a play for black farmers

US, Mexico keep the pressure on * Farm groups weigh in on climate change

Reactions to latest water war * Prop 12 lawsuit hits a snag

Rail money could go to water projects * December vote eyed for ag labor

The state is taking a new direction with the State Water Project, redeploying the system as a counter measure to any pumping performed by the federally run Central Valley Project.

House Speaker Nancy Pelosi says negotiations to bring the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement to the House floor are ongoing, but procedural steps required once a deal with the Trump administration is secured could push a vote into the new year.

Ag labor bill advances in House * Dems’ USMCA working group on sidelines

A bill to expand the H-2A farm worker visa program and provide legal status to existing agricultural employees is headed to the House floor despite strong opposition from Republicans who derided it as a “massive amnesty” measure.