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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, March 29, 2024
The California Department of Pesticide Regulation opened the application period for the 2023 Alliance and Research Grants cycle, offering $4.65 million in potential funding to accelerate the transition to safer, more sustainable pest management.
Farmers are growing frustrated that public workshops on a new pesticide proposal by the Newsom administration have devolved into aggressive shouting and personal attacks.
The combination of factors that came together within the last two years for California food and agriculture “should be considered a Black Swan event” that was unpredictable yet can have severe impacts, according to a leading analyst.
As the drought deepens and climate action heats up in California, the Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley is gaining a foothold with leaders in Sacramento.
The state Senate has voted down a measure promising to protect California farmers by holding out-of-state products to the same environmental, food safety and labor standards.
After months of delay, President Biden has finally nominated a longtime USDA staff member as the chief ag negotiator at USTR and Ocean Mist Farms has hired Jenny Rivera.
In a potential blow to the U.S. biofuel industry, the California Air Resources Board is proposing its most ambitious regulation yet with a ban on new gas-powered cars by 2035.
The Supreme Court has set Oct. 11 as the date when the National Pork Producers Council and the American Farm Bureau Federation will be able to make their final case for overturning Proposition 12, a California ballot initiative that would require pork sold in the state to come from sows afforded a minimum amount of space.