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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, November 09, 2024
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation is seeking nominations to honor innovations and achievements of sustainable integrated pest management (IPM) practices.
The Washington Apple Commission has tapped Michael Schadler as president. A University of Washington graduate, Schadler has been executive vice president of the Florida Tomato Exchange and coordinated international marketing programs for the Florida Department of Citrus.
The Department of Water Resources took an unusual step for an agency in publicly backing a measure to limit new groundwater wells. The bill was an attempt to fix several problems in Newsom’s drought order in 2022, which unsuccessfully sought to protect drinking water wells.
Gov. Gavin Newsom has demoted a powerful regulator who called an administration decision “bullshit” and attempted to override it through a potentially unlawful vote. Yet the labor leader remains on the board.
The Western Growers Association is leading a farm coalition to support Wonderful Nurseries in its lawsuit against ALRB and UFW to halt card check regulations.
More than 30 authors of a CDFA-led study say flexibility is needed from local California groundwater sustainability agencies to allow water availability for cover crops.
Republican dominance of farm country has neared the point where only a handful of major agricultural districts are in play in this fall’s elections, but the GOP hold on the House is so tenuous that races for those seats could potentially determine which party wins control of the chamber.
House Republicans step up their latest effort to cut domestic, non-defense programs this week as they release the fiscal 2024 spending bill to fund the Agriculture Department and Food and Drug Administration.
California Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer is the winner of Agri-Pulse's Great Tomato Challenge with a tomato plant his staff affectionately named Stanley. The media company is making a $1,000 donation to the Avalon-Carver Community Center, which runs a food distribution program in his south Los Angeles district.
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