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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, September 04, 2024
California is taking steps to use fairgrounds across the state during national disasters and emergencies. The California Department of Food and Agriculture has announced $89 million in grants to the Fairgrounds Resilience Centers Program.
USDA Trade Undersecretary Alexis Taylor is set to lead a mission to Japan next week, offering American government and private-sector officials the chance to work directly with the fourth-largest foreign market for U.S. food and agricultural exports.
Cal/OSHA has drafted a proposal for an indoor heat illness prevention standard. But business and farm groups worried about the feasibility of the protocols.
The Legislature is advancing a measure to grant SPCAs new authority in litigating animal abuse violations at puppy mills. Critics fear it would expose livestock handlers to frivolous lawsuits.
California farmer A.G. Kawamura has been elected as a co-chair of the United Nations Environment Program’s Farmers Major Group and the Washington State Wine Commission has hired Kristina Kelley as its new executive director.
New research from the University of California, Davis, suggests cultivated meat might not be better for the environment than beef from traditionally raised cattle, and in some cases could be worse.