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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, October 19, 2024
Tribes are pushing for more status in water laws to better protect cultural practices. Irrigation districts claim the real intention is to block a set of voluntary agreements for river flows.
Asm. Arambula is pushing to open housing year-round for migrant farmworkers. But some workers said that money could be better spent on workforce development programs.
California farm organizations are divided over a new bill that is proposing to loosen the penalties for ending Williamson Act conservation easements to streamline the deployment of large-scale solar development on retired farmland.
A progressive lawmaker is pushing to ban the herbicide paraquat to protect farmworkers and communities. But ag groups are refuting the claims and trying to rapidly educate lawmakers on the complex and robust regulatory process already in place.
Irrigation district fears it could undermine promises from both administrations to implement science-based decisions, better transparency and adaptive management.
A bill in the Legislature proposes to ease agricultural overtime rules after a UC Berkeley study found farmworkers have been earning and working less since the state enacted AB 1066 in 2016.
After the board chair swore at protestors and broke state transparency laws, the agency edited the actions out of a recording of the hearing. Employers are growing frustrated over an increasingly chaotic regulatory body.