Chloe Lovejoy

The Biden administration's effort to help farmers make money from cutting their greenhouse gas emissions is drawing interest from fruit and vegetable growers.

California is receiving a $600 million federal grant to increase transmission capacity and clean energy access, Gov. Gavin Newsom announced on Tuesday.

A $1.3 million investment from the United Soybean Board and other soybean associations will double the export capability of Washington’s Port of Grays Harbor to 6 million metric tons of soybean meal.

USDA has cut by more than half the number of quarantines imposed in California over the last year to prevent the spread of fruit fly discovered in the Los Angeles area last July.

Criticism of a proposal from federal bank regulators highlighted a hearing on reauthorization of the Commodity Futures Trading Commission in the House Agriculture Committee Thursday.

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to agriculture in her home state of California, the nation’s No. 1 state by far in agricultural production.

Interested parties are encouraged to demonstrate how their project will develop sustainable and integrated pest management practices.

The State Water Resources Control Board adopted a resolution on water conservation for urban areas after receiving consistent pushback on the rule for placing severe costs on local water providers, estimated at $4.7 billion through 2050. 

The California Farm Bureau elected Shannon Douglass to a two-year term as its president in December. She previously served as CAFB vice president and is the first woman to head the organization.

The Bureau of Reclamation says it has completed Phase 1 of the Friant-Kern Canal Middle Reach Capacity Correction Project with a ribbon-cutting celebration of 10 miles of new, concrete-lined canal. The new lining replaced an original section that had sunk from persistent groundwater removal since its construction in 1951.