Items Tagged with 'California Farm Bureau Federation'

California producers are eligible for compensation to support direct and indirect losses to livestock populations.

Spain's highly subsidized olives will be facing stiff antidumping duties after a World Trade Organization ruling favorable to U.S. growers allowed the Commerce Department to confirm the tariffs.

House Speaker Kevin McCarthy sends a message about the political significance of ag policy, sitting through the entirety of a House Agriculture Committee farm bill listening session in California and also fielding questions from reporters on a range of issues.

“Not that I’m aware of.” House Agriculture Chairman David Scott says that answer from Tim Schellpeper, the CEO of meatpacking giant JBS USA, at a hearing in April is enough to justify setting up a special investigator’s office at USDA to look into meat industry practices.

AmericanHort has brought on Sara Neagu-Reed as director of advocacy and government affairs and the Foundation for Food and Agriculture Research has selected a new executive director.

The California Farm Bureau Federation plans to host a rally outside of the California state Capitol on 11 a.m. Thursday in opposition of Assembly Bill 616, a measure that will change the current process for farmworker union elections.

President Joe Biden has announced his intent to nominate Chavonda Jacobs-Young to become undersecretary for research, education, and economics and USDA's chief scientist, and Pat Wolff joined the Maryland Farm Bureau as senior director of national affairs.

Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack named Randy Moore as the new chief of USDA’s Forest Service and the California Legislature appointed Sen. Connie Leyva of Chino to serve as a nonvoting member on the Air Resources Board.

As budget deadlines loom for the Legislature and governor, many details still need to be ironed out ahead of the next fiscal year, which beings July 1.