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Sonoma County, California, voters roundly rejected a ballot measure that would have banned concentrated animal feeding operations.

The court found that the farm obtained more than $650,000 in false crop insurance payments.

The San Joaquin Tributaries Authority named Andree Lee as the organization’s first executive director. Michael Bliss was promoted to director of grower services at California Citrus Mutual

Mission Produce promoted Brooke Becker to senior vice president of sales. Ryan Krabill joined the Oregon Farm Bureau as a government affairs manager. Kenneth Connolly joined the Senate Environment and Public Works Committee's Democratic staff as a senior policy adviser. 

Avian influenza has been detected in a pig for the first time in the United State, USDA’s National Veterinary Services Laboratories has confirmed.

California is experiencing a fall wave of highly pathogenic avian influenza — or H5N1 — among dairy and poultry operations.