Articles Tagged with ''california''

From California to Georgia, farmers can’t find enough workers to harvest their crops or milk their cows. Combined with Congress’s decades-long failure to act on long-promised comprehensive immigration reform, the result is that U.S. consumers are paying more for a less-secure food supply as more production moves south of the Mexican border in search of farm labor.

The Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service has reopened the comment period until April 30 on a 2017 proposal to use a protein found in spinach to combat citrus greening disease.

The steep cost of fighting fires has raised new interests in prevention and renewed old conflicts over the use of herbicides, one of the most cost-effective tools in the kit.

The House of Representatives is awash with new lawmakers. They’ve only been on the job for a few months but could present a formidable obstacle for the Trump administration as it pushes for approval of the U.S.-Mexico-Canada Agreement.

The Sustainable Groundwater Management Act will lead to at least 500,000 acres fallowed, according to a sweeping new report.