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Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue says there is less than a 10% chance that farmers will get more Market Facilitation Program payments this year and that China is sending “signals” it intends to honor its pledges to ramp up purchases of U.S. farm commodities.

Workshops focus on new ag order that threatens lettuce production * Policy wonks to discuss valley’s top issues at Kern County Water Summit today

A study released this week presents disturbing findings about impacts from implementing SGMA. Yet the state has never performed an economic impact analysis.

Nearly three dozen farm groups and university researchers are calling on House and Senate appropriators to fund the Agriculture Advanced Research and Development Authority (AgARDA), authorized in the 2018 Farm Bill but which has yet to receive any money.

California wine grape growers are out pulling up acres of grapevines this winter after years of liberal plantings and a flattening U.S. wine demand pushed growers and vintners into an economic purgatory.

Josette Lewis was tapped to serve as the Almond Board of California's chief scientific officer.

A costly new regulation has farmers worried year-round production on the Central Coast will be reduced to just one season.

Water Board fees expected to bump up again this year * Is Mississippi the next California? * Will SGMA affect port cities?

Reclamation finalizes expansion of Los Vaqueros Reservoir * SGMA impact study out soon * Don’t count on more MFP payments, Perdue tells growers