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Legislature’s 2025 session reshapes agriculture, water and labor policy

10/22/25 7:05 AM By Brad Hooker

California’s 2025 session reshaped farm, water and labor policy — from on-farm solar and food bans to Delta fights and new worker protections.

Study: AB 1066 is cutting in half California’s ag overtime workforce

11/08/23 7:10 AM By Brad Hooker

A new study shows the number of employees working overtime hours has roughly dropped in half under AB 1066.

California to approve Julie Su’s second replacement

05/01/23 6:52 AM By Brad Hooker

Stewart Knox, who previously served as undersecretary and has a background with agriculture, is lined up for Senate confirmation.

DPR takes ‘less politicized’ approach with 1,3-D, but farmers remain skeptical

01/11/23 7:15 AM By Brad Hooker

The Department of Pesticide Regulation has drafted a new regulation to further restrict the use of Telone. Farm groups are calling the science conservative and the justification weak, while activists say it doesn't go far enough.

Climate report forecasts heat that will threaten crops, farmworkers

08/18/21 5:30 AM By Brad Hooker

A new United Nations report underscores the grim reality that extreme heat poses for crops, livestock and farmworkers.

Lawmakers race to procure N95s for farmworkers during wildfire smoke

07/07/21 9:12 AM By Brad Hooker

California may soon grant farmworkers essential access to the state stockpile of N95 respirators to distribute when wildfire smoke is hazardous.

Dems call for universal income for farmworkers during drought

06/11/21 7:46 AM By Brad Hooker

Lawmakers are calling on Newsom to expand his universal basic income pilot program to farmworkers displaced by drought.

California hires more H-2A guest workers — despite strict new regulatory hurdles for COVID-19

04/21/21 9:14 AM By Brad Hooker

California’s strict COVID-19 measures have added more regulatory layers for agricultural employers dependent on the H-2A visa program for guest workers.

Legislature looks to tighten state H-2A regulations

04/14/21 7:18 AM By Brad Hooker

Lawmakers are hoping to protect vulnerable H-2A temporary guestworkers from exploitative practices by returning to two earlier legislative proposals.

Ag groups sue to block Coachella’s farmworker hazard pay

03/16/21 12:00 AM By Brad Hooker

A coalition of organizations has filed a lawsuit to block an emergency ordinance on “hero pay” the City of Coachella passed in February.

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06.19.2026

Agri-Pulse Newsmakers: Sen. Peter Welch on farm bill, Mary Boote on Global Farmer sentiment

The Senate is expected to release farm bill text soon. We asked Vermont Sen. Peter Welch what he’d like to see included, and if there will be a push to remove state SNAP cost share provisions enacted in the One Big Beautiful Bill. Welch also discusses concerns about staffing levels at farmer-facing USDA offices.

Plus, Global Farmer Network founder and CEO Mary Boote discusses how farmers around the world have responded to U.S. trade and tariff policies enacted by the Trump administration, as well as technology adoption trends from GFN members in 70+ countries in 6 continents.

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