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Harris ag record covers farm labor, climate action, animal welfare

07/24/24 6:10 AM By Chloe Lovejoy and Philip Brasher

Vice President Kamala Harris, now the presumptive Democratic presidential nominee, has a decidedly mixed record when it comes to agriculture in her home state of California, the nation’s No. 1 state by far in agricultural production.

Daybreak April 21: Ag climate bill sets stage for climate action

04/21/21 9:00 AM By Philip Brasher, Steve Davies, Bill Tomson, Spencer Chase, and Ben Nuelle

The last time a Democratic administration tried to pass climate legislation, in 2009, the bill died in the Senate partly because of resistance from farm groups. This year, one of the first significant climate bills a congressional committee is going to vote on is a measure backed by farm groups – the Growing Climate Solutions Act, which is aimed at facilitating the development of ag carbon markets.

Daybreak March 31: Scott: Debt relief unrelated to reparations

03/31/21 11:00 AM By Bill Tomson, Ben Nuelle, and Steve Davies

Some advocates of the newly-enacted debt relief provisions for minority farmers have called it a form of reparations. But House Agriculture Committee Chairman David Scott, who is African American, strenuously objects to that characterization. He says the $4 billion just makes up for the fact that white farmers primarily benefitted from the billions of dollars in recent farm payments.

California Green New Deal mandates 100% organic ag

05/04/20 11:10 AM By Brad Hooker

AB 1839 calls for “increasing the percentage of California’s agricultural land that is certified organic to 100 percent by 2040.”

Ag groups urge Newsom to relax water regulations

05/04/20 10:56 AM By Brad Hooker

California Green New Deal mandates 100% organic ag * A health study on farmworkers is in the works * TJ Cox says farmworkers need childcare during COVID-19

Democratic candidates tout rural infrastructure goals

01/15/20 6:45 AM By Ed Maixner

All of the leading Democratic presidential candidates are calling for major increases in spending for roads, bridges, rural broadband and other infrastructure needs, but the plans differ sharply in scope as well as in how the candidates plan to pay for them.

Daybreak: CDFA deploys fairgrounds for the homeless

01/08/20 11:43 PM By Brad Hooker

Plastics bills are back * FCC investing in broadband before map update

Sanders' Green New Deal looks to reshape US agriculture

08/22/19 11:42 AM By Philip Brasher

Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders is proposing a sweeping 10-year plan to carry out the Green New Deal and reshape U.S. agriculture through regulations and subsidies to reduce its environmental impact and push farmers into organic methods and smaller scales of production.

Five questions for Assemblymember James Gallagher

07/10/19 10:06 AM By Brad Hooker

Farmers must now invest time and money to get their voice heard in politics, said Gallagher. Otherwise, they can become collateral damage.

Washington Week Ahead: US negotiators to China, Senate mulls disaster aid

03/24/19 10:00 AM By Philip Brasher

U.S. negotiators head to China this week to resume face-to-face trade talks, and the Senate is expected to consider a long-stalled disaster aid bill amid demands to expand it to include assistance for losses from the Midwest flooding.

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