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Wednesday, April 09, 2025
As the California Legislature enters the last stretch of the session, agricultural groups are marking victories with bills that have stalled or taken significant amendments to remove opposition.
California Assemblymember Reggie Jones-Sawyer is the winner of Agri-Pulse's Great Tomato Challenge with a tomato plant his staff affectionately named Stanley. The media company is making a $1,000 donation to the Avalon-Carver Community Center, which runs a food distribution program in his south Los Angeles district.
With last week’s legislative deadline, lawmakers have set their priorities for the 2024 session. Some bills are familiar retreads of previous legislation, while others provide a new twist to ongoing issues.
The California Farm Bureau filling in a gap in state policymaking with a new research arm analyzing the economic impacts of EU policies that come to California.
Climate extremes and inadequate preparation for a winter deluge underline the challenge. But the fault lies with an inflexible process for updating pumping permits as the hydrology flips from drought to floods.
While rising inflation has significant impacts on the state’s food production, experts are quick to highlight many other issues impacting farmers as part of a perfect storm of rising costs in California agriculture.
A Central Valley legislator is collaborating with congress members and federal, state and local agencies to fix degraded water infrastructure in the valley.
With Democrats holding a super majority of power in California since 2018, Republican Assemblymember Andreas Borgeas of Fresno is seeing the pendulum now swing in the other direction.
Gov. Newsom returned to Fresno County on Friday to promote the administration’s efforts to bring vaccine doses to the Central Valley and to farmworkers.
