Items Tagged with 'climate-smart agricultural practices'

Agencies are bracing for sweeping budget cuts to account for a $58 billion deficit, while both houses have new leaders. Money to meet SGMA and climate mandates is highly uncertain.

The Legislature has sent a budget plan to Gov. Gavin Newsom that preserves a portion of the state’s funding for climate-smart agriculture programs.

The lead Republican on the House Agriculture Committee's Conservation and Forestry Subcommittee, fourth-generation rice farmer Doug LeMalfa, wants to ensure in the next Congress that farm conservation practices stay voluntary, and he also intends to focus on what he considers proactive fire and timber management.

The USDA Natural Resources Conservation Service is reaching out to conservation organizations to submit proposals for cooperative agreements that focus on climate-smart agriculture.

Newsom administration officials are heading to the UN Climate Change Conference with a plan to highlight their nature-based solutions.

A dozen major farm groups have jumped into the fray over conservation funding in the estimated $3.5 trillion reconciliation package Democrats plan to introduce in the Senate, calling for “increased investment in climate-smart agricultural practices that sequester carbon or reduce greenhouse gas emissions.”