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Table grapes are up * CDFA may consider a carbon market * Senate GOP readies ag aid * Last stop for landmark lands bill

CDFA and the Air Resources Board (CARB) will hold a series of workshops beginning next week to explore ideas for public-private partnerships for the Healthy Soils Program.

A newly published study provides evidence that dust and bioaerosols moved from a commercial poultry operation a short distance downwind into an almond orchard.

A three-judge panel has ruled that farmers do not have special privilege to water for irrigation use, handing a victory to the Imperial Irrigation District in a long-standing legal battle with farmer Michael Abatti.

A new report from Rabobank found that consumption of table grapes has grown or stabilized through the duration of the COVID-19 pandemic.

Agricultural trade groups are responding with optimism to a much-anticipated report proposing alternatives to the pesticide chlorpyrifos that the Newsom administration released last week.

Senate Republicans are preparing to roll out a $1 trillion coronavirus relief package that will likely include $20 billion in additional funding for USDA to help compensate farmers for pandemic-related losses.

Bayer joins the ranks of agribusinesses paying farmers for carbon-conserving practices under a new program being rolled out this fall.