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Friday, April 04, 2025
County agricultural commissioners and pest control advisers shared remaining concerns with DPR's soon-to-launch notification tool during the March State Food and Agriculture Board meeting.
CDFA, CAPCA and the University of California's Integrated Pest Management Department will start collecting new in-field data about integrated and sustainable pest management next year as a result of a new $1 million grant.
The state’s relationship with county agricultural commissioners has steadily declined amid a stream of new directives concerning pesticide enforcement, according to Riverside County Agricultural Commissioner Ruben Arroyo.
As the Newsom administration works with advocates on pesticide notifications, commissioners are raising alarms that it could "ruin a perfectly good system."
The California Pollinator Coalition is broadening its collaboration between agriculture and conservation groups to improve the health, diversity and number of pollinators on working lands.
Agricultural trade groups are responding with optimism to a much-anticipated report proposing alternatives to the pesticide chlorpyrifos that the Newsom administration released last week.
