Richard Rominger, deputy secretary of agriculture during the Clinton administration and former secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, died Sunday of a heart attack suffered at a restaurant in Winters, Calif., his home town. He was 93.

An organic fertilizer known as Agro Gold WS has been contaminated with conventional herbicides, the California Department of Food and Agriculture said in issuing a quarantine order on the product.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture is now accepting proposals for the 2021 Specialty Crop Block Grant Program.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture has created a centralized portal for wildfire recovery assets as flames rip through the state.

CDFA announced Monday that it has awarded more than $544,000 to control tomato pest T. absoluta and fund other pest research.

The California Department of Food and Agriculture announced Sunday that it has distributed $2.97 million in grant requests to 20 Healthy Soils Program Demonstration Projects.

Western Growers has hired De Ann Davis as senior vice president of science and the California Department of Food and Agriculture brings on Lina Nguyen as a senior environmental scientist specialist.

In this opinion piece, Karen Ross, Secretary of the California Department of Food and Agriculture, discusses why we need to make the Farming to Support States Act happen and make it accessible to all, so that it may provide an extra measure of support for our food supply, and begin true economic recovery for communities still reeling for more than a decade.