Agricultural trade groups are responding with optimism to a much-anticipated report proposing alternatives to the pesticide chlorpyrifos that the Newsom administration released last week.

The Department of Pesticide Regulation and CDFA have released a much-anticipated report proposing alternatives to the pesticide chlorpyrifos.

Some invasive species usually try and settle down, start a large family and stake a claim on some of California's endless buffet of agricultural crops, becoming the bane of farmers and researchers.

WASHINGTON, Oct. 25, 2017 - California pesticide control advisers (PCA’s) need to become more involved in deciding the fate of agriculture in their state, by engaging state lawmakers, supporting grower groups, and donating money to political action committees.