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Incentives bills for ag are cut * Free N95s for smoke * AG takes on egg farm * H-2A approvals up * Organic calls for climate aid

Federal policies that help advance organic agriculture will help to reduce greenhouse gas emissions responsible for climate change, the Organic Trade Association said in a paper.

The coronavirus pandemic appears to have had little impact on the operation of the H-2A farm labor program.

Attorney General Xavier Becerra has asked a state court to order an egg farm and its distributer to comply with an investigation into price gouging.

County agricultural commissioners are distributing a limited supply of N95 respirators to ag businesses.

Thursday was a day many lawmakers fret each year, as appropriations committees for both houses of the Legislature decided which bills to advance and which to cut.

Fairgrounds activated as shelters * Plastic recycling bill returns to life * More farmers using cover crops

One of the more closely watched bills of 2019, AB 1080, has been pulled from the inactive file.

State emergency offices have activated fairgrounds several counties to serve as evacuation centers for people and livestock from the wildfires.

More than half of farmers who seeded their cash crop into a growing cover crop last year — a practice known as “planting green” — said it helped them plant earlier than they could in fields that didn't have cover crops, according to an annual survey.