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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Wednesday, January 22, 2025
The $10 billion measure would allocate nearly $4 billion to various water issues and $300 million to programs promoting sustainability practices and helping farmers and ranchers to build climate resilience.
One of the California’s top water regulators fielded questions recently over a slew of local agencies facing repercussions for their inadequate groundwater plans and for a patchwork of new fertilizer regulations hitting farmers across the state.
More than 30 authors of a CDFA-led study say flexibility is needed from local California groundwater sustainability agencies to allow water availability for cover crops.
California is scaling up its grid infrastructure but the buildout is putting more scrutiny on natural and working lands and collaborations with rural counties.
Wine consumption is plateauing even as value-priced wines decline in sales amid a growing market for higher-priced, premium wines, says Chris Bitter, senior wine and grape analyst at Terrain, an agricultural analysis firm.
PPIC is sparking new conversations about innovative solutions that keep farmers farming and avoid devastating environmental and health impacts from SGMA fallowing, but some of the challenges are daunting.
Increasing food production without using additional water and land resources could be possible through further developments in irrigation and water engineer, plant breeding and gene editing, and innovative management of things like heat and sunlight.
