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California policymakers and industry groups are hoping to tap into federal spending through the farm bill reauthorization to shore up climate programs and help farmers meet state-mandated air quality goals.

Farmers are likely to face yet another round of fee hikes this year from the state water board, and trade groups are once again pleading for relief following a record year for fallowing.

A Senate committee has voted down a measure that would incorporate greenhouse gas emissions from wildfires into the state’s Climate Scoping Plan.

A recent announcement from the California Department of Water Resources deemed six San Joaquin Valley groundwater sustainability plans as inadequate.

The Pollinator Habitat Program, an initiative of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation, has awarded grants to 10 organizations.

Alyssa Houtby has joined the North American Blueberry Council as the new director of government affairs and Loree Dowse and Paul Ensley have joined Church Bros. Farms.

The American poultry sector is awaiting a spring spike in detections of highly pathogenic avian influenza, leading industry and government officials to wonder if the disease has pivoted from an occasional concern to a permanent part of raising birds in the United States.

With a record snowpack in the region, many are wondering if flooding will once revive the lake.

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross fielded questions over an Air Resources Board goal to convert 20% of agriculture to organic.

Newsom issued an executive order on Friday that suspended permitting regulations for diverting stormwater for groundwater recharge.