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Paula Stigler Granados of San Diego was appointed to the California Air Resources Board. She has been an associate professor and division head of Environmental Health at San Diego State University's School of Public Health since 2021. Stigler Granados was an associate professor at Texas State University’s School of Health Administration from 2018 to 2021. Earlier, she was an air quality specialist for the Pala Band of Mission Indians from 2005 to 2007. She is a board member of the San Diego County Air Pollution Control District and the High Tech High Foundation. 

Growers who use the H-2A program are pleased with the Trump administration’s new rule simplifying the program but in some cases are stymied by so-called “administrative holds” on workers that prevent them from getting to their workplaces.

As insurers retreat from wildfire-exposed areas, lawmakers are scrutinizing the rapid growth of the California FAIR Plan and what it means for rural communities and farms struggling to find coverage.

California Department of Food and Agriculture deputy secretary for legislative affairs, Rachael O’Brien, has left the department to become vice president of government relations at the California Grocers Association. Capespan North America hired Craig Messmer and Ashley Berlinger as sales executives. At least two members of the Federal Crop Insurance Corporation board of directors, who were appointed by former Ag Sec. Tom Vilsack to serve four-year terms, were removed last week via a letter from Undersecretary for Farm Production and Conservation Richard Fordyce. Ryan Howard was promoted to North American sales director at Family Tree Farms.