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Government research into a wide range of areas, and standardization of data will be needed if USDA is to implement its 30-year plan to increase U.S. agricultural production by 40% while cutting ag's environmental footprint in half.

Venture capitalists are still investing in a broad range of new and improving technology to help farmers produce their crops and consumers get the food they want and need.

Foster Farms has reopened a poultry processing plant in Livingston, Calif., after shutting it for a week to conduct thousands of COVID-19 tests on employees and conduct “deep cleaning” of the facilities.

Wildfires further impact grape harvest * UK: Ag still problem for trade talks * Hemp industry hopes for USDA delay

Many wineries are not taking contracted deliveries until lab tests have cleared the grapes.

State expands COVID housing * CFAP-2 rollout set * EPA reforms on Trump 2nd term agenda * State ag officials target racism

The California Water Institute at Fresno State has released a report that outlines the next steps needed to build and fund a new water infrastructure plan for the San Joaquin Valley.

Santa Barbara County has joined the administration’s new Housing for the Harvest program.

USDA will release the rules for the next round of coronavirus relief payments to farmers next week, just ahead of the deadline for applying for the first round, Ag Secretary Sonny Perdue says.

Rethinking cow burps * Patching up the farm economy * Forecast spotlights disparities among commodities * Think climate, lenders told