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As the drought deepens and climate action heats up in California, the Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley is gaining a foothold with leaders in Sacramento.

Stakeholders gathered for the first-ever Monarch Butterfly Summit in Washington, D.C. last week and the Interior Department announced a major investment in conservation.

Jeanne Merrill is stepping down from the California Climate and Agriculture Network where she was the founding policy director.

After years of trial and error, lawmakers have finally arrived at a subsidy program that milk producers can live with, but the dairy industry is heading toward the next farm bill sharply divided over possible reforms to the federal pricing system for milk.

New Mexico dairy farmer Art Schaap, who lost nearly 4,000 of his cows due to PFAS contamination, is still waiting on a payment from the Agriculture Department under the Dairy Indemnity Payment Program even as he struggles to keep his business afloat.

The Environmental Protection Agency is expected to act later this year on 15-year-old Renewable Fuel Standard language that would allow power derived from renewable biomass for electric vehicle charging to qualify for credits through the program.

California legislators are advancing two measures that would require state schools and colleges to purchase more U.S. agricultural products and for state institutions to buy California-grown foods.

The Department of Agriculture is giving interested parties through the end of August to submit their applications for a new pilot program aiming to support biobased product development.

Glyphosate, one of agriculture's chief inputs is not only a mainstay in the field, it's had its fair share of trips to the courtroom as well.