Newsom bans rodenticides * Fairs help with fires * Citrus Stride goes virtual * CCC funding set to clear * Crunch time for covid talks

Polling shows the fight over Prop. 15 on the November ballot to be a tight race, offering hope for the coalition of farm groups that has been among the earliest opponents of the ballot measure on property taxes.

A Cal/OSHA board has approved a petition by labor groups for an emergency regulation to develop new COVID-19 requirements for employers.

The response from a CDFA economic analysis as well as trade groups has been that these cutbacks could be devastating for citrus, winegrape and cotton growers.

The Senate Rules Committee has confirmed the nomination of Val Dolcini as director of the Department of Pesticide Regulation.

DPR releases neonic regs * USDA expands CFAP, extends signup

During a workshop Tuesday, research staff for the Department of Pesticide Regulation presented new mitigations on four neonicotinoid pesticides.

United Farm Workers, a co-sponsor of the bill, labeled CDFA Secretary Karen Ross as “dangerous” for negotiating an exemption on the granular form under the ban.

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.

New ag trade advisors from CA * Senate GOP ‘socializing’ its COVID plan * House panel probing Food Box initiative