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The Biden administration and congressional Democrats are aiming to use the agriculture provisions in the Build Back Better bill to jump-start farmers’ work on climate-related farming practices and potentially create permanently higher levels of funding for conservation programs.

As millions of employees rethink their jobs that have been impacted by COVID, some rural community leaders hope they'll move out to the country for a better and more affordable quality of life.  

The top Republicans on the House and Senate Ag committees are pleading with the Environmental Protection Agency to reverse its decision revoking all food tolerances for chlorpyrifos.

A team at the University of California, Davis, is seeking a patent for a product they’ve developed to keep food cold or frozen.

The Democratic-controlled House passes President Joe Biden’s $1.7 trillion Build Back Better bill that includes $82 billion in agriculture provisions aimed at accelerating an historic shift toward climate-related farming practices.

Don Cameron believes farmers in water-rich areas have been slow to transition to new conservation practices and technologies.

Newsom will have a surplus of about $31 billion as the state heads into a drought and an election year.

DPR is taking public comment through February on pesticide-treated seeds to inform future regulatory actions.

The deepening drought and rising temperatures are exhausting agency resources for managing the species to prevent extinction.