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Debate has again flared up an insecticide widely used in other states and now banned in California from all uses except the granular form.

Water policy expert Tim Quinn describes a breakdown in coalition building that began 20 years ago.

CDFA announced Monday that it has awarded more than $544,000 to control tomato pest T. absoluta and fund other pest research.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced Sunday that it has distributed $2.97 million in grant requests to 20 Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Projects.

After 35 years at the Californian Department of Food and Agriculture, Dale Woods retires from the agency and AgBiome hires Jason Kuhlemeier as vice president of marketing.

Major farm groups are working to ensure that a new coronavirus relief package provides more specific directions to the Agriculture Department on how to distribute $20 billion in additional relief.

A new bill would ban two widely used classes of pesticides and allow citizens to petition the Environmental Protection Agency for designations of pesticides as “dangerous,” which could lead to suspension of their registrations.

USDA’s Agricultural Marketing Service is proposing a rule to strengthen oversight and enforcement of the organic supply chain, particularly imports.

The size of the average dairy farm is growing as consolidation drives greater concentration of production across many different regions with prominent dairy production.