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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Monday, November 25, 2024
Prominent urban water districts have joined a Central Valley coalition in lobbying the Newsom administration for major infrastructure investments, while rice growers begin to tally the toll from fallowing and flood costs rise to $30 billion.
A diverse coalition of groups concerned that Food and Drug Administration is giving short shrift to food safety issues is asking FDA Commissioner Robert Califf to create a position that would have authority over food programs.
The Senate Agriculture Committee holds a long-awaited hearing this week on a bill to mandate more negotiated trading in the cattle markets, and then the panel launches its preparation for the next farm bill with a field hearing Friday in Michigan, the home state of Chairwoman Debbie Stabenow.
Gingko Bioworks and Bayer are joining together as strategic partners in an effort “to develop biological solutions in fields like nitrogen optimization, carbon sequestration, and next-generation crop protection,” Bayer announced Friday.
Senate GOP lawmakers came out in full force on Thursday against a bill calling for more urban water conservation, while moderate Democrats joined in their frustrations over lagging water storage investments.
Governor Gavin Newsom has made new appointments to the California State Board of Food and Agriculture and the International Fresh Produce Association has selected Tamara Muruetagoiena as the director of sustainability.
California Gov. Gavin Newsom will soon unveil a revised budget proposal that adds more details to a new $22 billion climate package. Yet some agricultural counties and farm groups say a decades-old farmland conservation program could be revived and accomplish some of the same goals.
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