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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, September 05, 2024
Chris Valadez, president of the Grower-Shipper Association of Central California, thanked CDFA Secretary Karen Ross for quickly sending masks to farmers.
Agricultural lenders should design their loan programs to encourage farmers' adoption of farming practices resilient to the impacts of climate change, the Environmental Defense Fund says in a new report.
“Exceptional growing conditions” for almonds will allow the 2020/21 crop to reach 3 billion pounds this year, which will drop prices to historical lows, according to a new report from RaboResearch Food & Agribusiness.
As almond harvest advanced at a feverish pace in the Central Valley during August, high heat, humidity, along with heavy smoke from neighboring wildfires, created some unique challenges.
The Trump administration is acting to remove another regulatory barrier to agricultural biotechnology by proposing to streamline EPA's oversight of pest-resistant plants. But there's little sign of progress on reforms to FDA’s regulation of gene-edited animals.