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A new study finds that rapidly converting 30% of California agriculture to organic practices would dramatically increase food prices and shrink profits for farmers.

The Almond Alliance and Great Valley Seed have launched a new initiative to help growers expand pollinator habitat.

The incredibly slow pace of final congressional election results in California appears to be coming to an end, with one exception.

Monterey Mushrooms has hired Andrea Smith as the new director of sales for the western region and Brian Hunt is the new senior vice president of ag operations at Church Brothers.

Republicans plan to use their razor-thin House majority and the committee control it gives them to investigate the Biden administration’s regulation of pesticides, climate policy and other issues important to agriculture.

The Environmental Protection Agency got a reminder, as if it needed one, of the need for a legally sufficient plan addressing the risks of pesticides to endangered species when a federal appeals court ordered it Tuesday to issue a new assessment on an insecticide used in blueberry and citrus production.

San Luis Obispo County has been restricting new groundwater wells in the Paso Robles subbasin for nearly a decade. Now county supervisors are hoping to tack on a carbon sequestration mandate.

Environmental justice advocates came out in force to workshops on the Newsom administration’s proposal to alert residents ahead of pesticide applications.