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The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is reaching out to conservation organizations to submit proposals for cooperative agreements that focus on climate-smart agriculture.

Major railroads are under attack by the ag industry, which says lack of personnel is hampering shipments and raising costs for companies forced to rely on secondary freight options.

New York State’s proposal to reduce the overtime threshold for ag workers from 60 to 40 hours per week is meeting resistance from farm employers.

National Environmental Policy Act regulations are gradually returning to their pre-Trump administration form with the Council on Environmental Quality’s publication of a final rule Tuesday.

State Senator Anna Caballero of Salinas has an uncomfortable history with water bonds.

Water right holders have formed a steering committee to develop a program of more equitable and voluntary water cutbacks to soften the blow of state curtailment orders.

More than a dozen farm groups are formally supporting a pair of Idaho landowners in a Supreme Court case that could determine the regulatory reach of the Clean Water Act.

A San Joaquin Valley lawmaker has been hoping to modernize water management in California by dissolving the state water board.

Despite rising costs for water and food safety—labor is the top challenge for farmers these days, for both availability and cost. A new event in October aims to connect specialty crop growers, agtech startups, investors and leaders in workforce development in an attempt to address this issue.

The Bureau of Reclamation only plans to allocate 50,000 acre-feet of water to Klamath Basin farmers this year, a drought-inspired move that has producers concerned about the 170,000 acres of cropland they hoped to irrigate.