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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Saturday, April 20, 2024
The state is preparing for a warm winter, a worse drought and a chance of biblical floods—offering little reliability for farmers eyeing the next planting season.
As the Newsom administration works with advocates on pesticide notifications, commissioners are raising alarms that it could "ruin a perfectly good system."
The California Department of Food and Agriculture’s Office of Farm Equity awarded $5 million in grants to help organizations across the state train farmworkers and beginning farmers.
Agriculture is pushing back on a semi-permanent COVID-19 rule for workplaces, arguing the proposal is not based on accurate data and fails to account for new advancements in addressing the pandemic.
CDFA Secretary Karen Ross is pressing the Food and Drug Administration for assurance that it views states as co-regulators in implementing the Food Safety Modernization Act and the agency's leadership seems responsive.
Hopes dimmed last week for any options to ease a decade-long trend in rising compliance costs. Farmers are seeing yet another bump in water quality fees.
State and industry players are looking to build on California’s most cost-effective climate program by investing in the next groundbreaking technologies and innovative practices.