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CDFA has announced a grant to the Coalition for Urban/Rural Environmental Stewardship (CURES), which will be used to support a new pest management approach.

Scientists at the University of California, Davis have released a study highlighting why red wine can give some people headaches.

The California Avocado Commission has named two employees as co-executive leaders of the organization and former BLM director Neil Kornze has moved to K Street to be the senior vice president of Cassidy and Associates.

The Food and Drug Administration is encouraging consumer vigilance to limit the impact of a Salmonella outbreak tied to cantaloupe consumption across more than 30 states and Canada.

A surge in e-commerce has diversified local ag economies but added new impacts to tax revenues and vulnerable communities.

The unprecedented effort has faced steady blowback from environmental, sportfishing and tribal interests, while state agency staff have raised potential roadblocks to its success.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture, alongside the State Board of Food and Agriculture, is initiating the first of five public listening sessions to help define the term “regenerative agriculture" and also announced $35 million to support greenhouse gas reductions for dairy and livestock operations.

Assembly Speaker Robert Rivas rolled out a new leadership slate, UC Davis is looking for a new ag dean and a Washington state woman is the new leader of the nation's oldest farm organization.

After mulling the decision all year, the California Public Utilities Commission voted to end a program that has incentivized thousands of operations to invest in on-farm solar generation.

An advisory committee has issued its final recommendations on bolstering natural and working lands to pull more carbon from the atmosphere.