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Duda expanded the sales team by hiring Roger Moncada as director of western sales and Steve Bindas as director of outside sales. The Northern California Water Association hired Clarissa “Kam” Bezdek as a legislative affairs director. Former Biotechnology Innovation Organization staff member Beth Ellikidis joined Syngenta as director of federal affairs

California energy policy leader Robert Weisenmiller died July 14 after a brief illness. Ryan French joined Scanit Technologies as senior lead for sales and market development. Former Dairy West CEO Karianne Fallow joined AARP as Idaho state director. 

Higher country-specific reciprocal tariffs that were unveiled on April 2 but postponed for 90 days to allow breathing room for negotiations are set to snap back into place on Friday. The Senate Ag Committee holds a hastily arranged hearing on Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins' sweeping plan to reorganize the department.

Under the terms of a Japan-U.S. trade and investment pact, Japan will buy $8 billion of U.S. agri-food and other products and expand its quota for rice imports, the White House said on Wednesday.

Opponents of California’s Proposition 12 used a House Agriculture Committee hearing Wednesday to voice their concerns about the impacts on the nation’s pork producers of the animal welfare law, which was narrowly upheld by the Supreme Court last year.

California lawmakers are advancing a controversial measure to expand the state’s solar-use easement program to allow more farmland to be leased for renewable energy projects.

The San Joaquin River will be seeing some construction in the next few years, as the Arroyo Canal Fish Screen and Sack Dam Fish Bypass Project works to improve fish passage in the river through its recent $93 million grant from the Bureau of Reclamation.