Items Tagged with 'Jamie Johansson'

The California Farm Bureau elected Shannon Douglass, who currently serves as the organization's first vice president, to replace president Jamie Johansson during the Farm Bureau’s 105th Annual Meeting in Reno.

After years of crisis response, ag groups were excited to see USDA grants to address vulnerabilities and build resilience for the next disasters to come.

EJs are pressing for more freshwater flows to fish populations and to boost their voices within GSPs that have failed to meet state standards. The board also has a role with Sites Reservoir and reforming water rights.

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.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sends a message about the political significance of ag policy, sitting through the entirety of a House Agriculture Committee farm bill listening session in California and also fielding questions from reporters on a range of issues.

State Farm Bureau leaders say a new “Waters of the U.S.” rule from the Biden administration could have outsized impacts on producers in California, echoing a chorus of alarms from national agricultural groups over the rewrite.

California Farm Bureau President Jamie Johansson painted a grim state of the industry following “a year of challenges like no other,” aiming his frustrations at state policies, lamenting: “It doesn’t have to be this way.”