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The Interior Department has proposed five possible routes for a new framework governing water cuts after current guidelines expire in 2026. 

The California Avocado Commission expressed frustration over the U.S. Department of Agriculture Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service’s lack of communication over changes in imported avocado inspection practices.

At the California Department of Water Resources’ event marking the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act’s 10th anniversary, some of the state officials who developed the legislation talked about what they would change in the writing.

The Montana Grazing Lands Coalition hired Megan Terry as executive director. California Gov. Gavin Newson appointed Hernan Hernandez of Bakersfield and Rolston St. Hilaire of Clovis to the State Board of Food and Agriculture.

Paul Lewis is the new vice president of food safety standards and regulatory compliance at the International Fresh Produce Association. CropLife America added Victoria Yell as a science policy fellow.

China is ending an export tax rebate for used cooking oil, a common feedstock for renewable diesel, in a move analysts say could spur higher prices and prompt U.S. biofuel producers to explore other oil sources.

Lawmakers are stepping up their work this week on a package of disaster aid and relief for commodity price declines as they head toward having to pass another extension of the 2018 farm bill. Deputy Agriculture Secretary Xochitl Torres Small is scheduled to testify at a Senate hearing on disaster aid needs. 

Agricultural water deliveries could decrease by about 5% in California's Central Valley and by 15% in dry years, under a long-term plan outlined in an Environmental Impact Statement issued by the Bureau of Reclamation Friday.

Agricultural bankers report that farmers are significantly less profitable this year, especially in corn and other grains as well as in fruit and tree nuts, and delinquency rates are expected to begin rising.