Articles Tagged with ''Karen Ross''

The California Department of Agriculture is hosting a meeting Wednesday to discuss the latest updates from a group charged with finding environmental benefits and economic opportunities for animal waste.

The economic shockwave of the pandemic continues to reverberate through rural regions threatening to close many rural hospitals.

A race to save communities from flooding following winter storms has turned into a marathon as snowmelt begins to submerge parts of the Central Valley.

The celebration of agriculture was subdued by a cold, driving rain—as farms battled to hold back floodwater from snowmelt and topped levees.

The Pollinator Habitat Program, an initiative of the California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation, has awarded grants to 10 organizations.

Hundreds of interest groups, trade associations, environmentalists and even a few farmers are submitting their ideas for a new farm bill to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees. Not to be outdone, representatives of key California departments recently submitted their own 2023 farm bill recommendations in a letter to chairpersons and ranking members.

A total of 103 projects in California have received Conservation Agriculture Planning Grant Program awards.

Agricultural groups have been closely watching the Newsom administration's development of an ambitious pesticide plan—and they remain skeptical.

Agriculture has planted a new seed in the Central Valley with the nation’s first robotics and automation conference dedicated to specialty crops.