Compliance reporting eats up at least 7% of a grower’s budget

02/25/21 2:21 PM By Brad Hooker

California strawberry growers spend at least 7% of their budget on compliance reporting costs alone. CDFA hopes to change that.

Legislature returns to single-use plastics, with ag part of the solution

12/02/20 11:20 AM By Brad Hooker

The Assembly heard two days of testimony on the many problems facing California and the planet when it comes to packaging made up of single-use plastics.

COVID-19 will cost California agriculture up to $9 billion

06/24/20 9:49 AM By Brad Hooker

A new study shows an industry grappling with massive losses related to the COVID-19 pandemic could range up to nearly $9 billion.

Strawberries: A crop of opportunity for Mexican-Americans

06/05/19 6:35 AM By Ed Maixner

Mexican immigrants have gradually advanced from farmworker to become the most typical California strawberry farmer, but now they faces challenges over labor and affordable farmland.

Farm Hands on the Potomac: Starling heads home to North Carolina

04/24/19 6:00 AM By Hannah Pagel

The president of ADM's grain business steps down, Kraft Heinz brings on a past Anheuser-Busch-Busch executive to fill their CEO position, and the J.R. Simplot Company appoints a new vice president of business development.

Farm Hands on the Potomac West: Livengood decides to run again in 2020

04/22/19 4:08 PM By Hannah Pagel

Regulatory affairs manager of the California Strawberry Commission, announces she will run for Congress in California’s 10th congressional district.

Debbie Reed, Ecosystem Services Market Consortium

This week’s Open Mic guest is Debbie Reed, executive director of the Ecosystem Services Market Consortium. ESMC was established in 2017 from the Noble Foundation’s desire to discover market-based solutions to improve soil health. With tremendous energy from the private sector toward reducing greenhouse gasses in the atmosphere, Reed says agriculture and forestry can play an important role in accomplishing positive environmental outcomes. Reed ways Washington is playing “catch up” to the industry’s efforts toward sustainability, but can still play a critical role to desired outcomes.

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Opinion: The Biden administration should address Mexico’s bans on genetically engineered corn and glyphosate

In this opinion piece, Daren Bakst and Gabriella Beaumont-Smith with The Heritage Foundation discuss the potential fallout from Mexico’s bans and what the administration can do.

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Washington Week in Review: May 6, 2021: Rep. Dusty Johnson on 30x30, infrastructure, beef bills

The Biden administration rolled out a plan to conserve 30% of the nation's land and water by 2030 this week, and House Ag Committee Republican Dusty Johnson is among many looking for specifics on what this means for American agriculture. In this interview, the South Dakota Republican offers his thoughts on that as well as where he sees infrastructure and beef cattle market reforms going in 2021.

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