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Senators are trying to find an agreement on a new Ukraine supplemental spending bill by the end of this week, while Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and other cabinet members head to Capitol Hill for questioning about their spending plans.

Virtual roundtables to discuss the Environmental Protection Agency and Army Corps of Engineers’ effort to come up with a “durable” definition of “waters of the U.S.” will kick off Monday, with nine more to follow through June 24.

The state water board is planning to readopt an emergency regulation for curtailments along the Scott and Shasta River watersheds

Senators Dianne Feinstein and Alex Padilla are calling on 13 major ocean carriers to help alleviate the global food shortage by acquiring more containers for agricultural exports.

Gov. Newsom issued an executive order aimed at protecting drinking water wells as the drought deepens. But farm and business groups say it weakens a tool growers have long relied on to survive droughts.

State agencies will face a hard deadline for approving the Bay-Delta Plan, if lawmakers approve a bill progressing through the Legislature.

After falling for the first time during the pandemic, California’s population continued to decline last year, albeit more slowly, as more people moved to more affordable inland areas.

University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources is recruiting 16 new extension specialists over the coming year with expertise in issues ranging from agricultural toxicology to the economics of food supply chains.

Mission Produce has selected Timothy Bulow as the company’s next president and COO and Chief Financial Officer Larry Dicke is set to retire from the California Chamber of Commerce.