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With some shots of rain and snow still arriving, and reservoirs at near average levels, the state still remains far short in total rain and snow statewide as it heads toward fire season.

In light of the COVID-19 pandemic, California’s state government is navigating a new world as leaders take the first steps in organizing public meetings from their dinner tables.

California’s ag extension ranks have been thinned for three decades, but farm groups are fighting to restore funding and staff positions.

Producers’ support for President Donald Trump has grown despite sluggish exports and their own worries about their financial condition as the economic slowdown triggered by the COVID-19 has developed, according to the latest Agri-Pulse poll of U.S. farmers and ranchers.

The debate over fats in the American diet has entered a critical phase for members of the Dietary Guidelines Advisory Committee, who barely have two months to finish their draft report and send it to Health and Human Services Secretary Alex Azar and Agriculture Secretary Sonny Perdue, who make the final decisions on what’s in and what’s out.

New Department of Agriculture figures show per capita consumption of avocados has tripled since 2001, jumping to 8 pounds per person in 2018.

The Senate confirms Mindy Brashears as USDA’s undersecretary for food safety.

A massive economic stimulus bill that congressional leaders are rushing to finish could allow the Agriculture Department to provide multiple forms of aid to different sectors hit by the coronavirus epidemic as well as a fresh round of Market Facilitation Program payments, a key senator says.

Garamendi: Delta tunnel plan should consider impacts to ag lands * State lists foothill yellow-legged frog as endangered * State office rejects food waste regulations

Out of an abundance of caution and concern, Agri-Pulse will postpone the Food & Ag Policy Summit West from April 22 to September 9.