Items Tagged with 'California Department Food and Agriculture'

The State Board of Food and Agriculture unanimously approved a definition for regenerative agriculture to inform state policy decisions.

California’s 44 projects are receiving awards ranging from roughly $200,000 to $2 million.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is creating a program to help historically underrepresented groups get projects funded through the 2025 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

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.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has announced $4 million in grants for its Healthy Soils Demonstration Program.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture's Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation announced yesterday it has selected 11 organizations to receive a combined $5 million in Water Efficiency Technical Assistance Funding.

California regulations that will require hog farms to provide sows with more housing space starting in 2022 will likely pose logistical challenges for pork exports while increasing production costs and raising retail prices, say producers and industry analysts.

Governor Gavin Newsom has appointed Haig Baghdassarian as the deputy secretary and chief counsel at the California Department of Food and Agriculture and the Arizona Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement has hired Kevin Watson as a new compliance officer.