Items Tagged with 'CAWG'

FDA boosts traceability * Wine industry asks for disaster relief * Could farm payments be delayed? * House Ag chair’s farm policy worries

Many wineries are not taking contracted deliveries until lab tests have cleared the grapes.

Gains in wine sales at grocery stores during the pandemic will not make up for extraordinary losses at restaurants, hotels, stadiums and tasting rooms.

Bayer after a massive settlement * Dems go big on rural broadband

Agriculture is meant to be exempt from a ballot measure that would raise property taxes by repealing parts of Prop. 13 and replacing them with a split-roll tax.

Signup arrives for COVID-19 payments * USDA pressed for farmworker protections

The agency is protecting outdoor workers by requiring employers supply N95 respirators when the air quality index hits an unhealthy level due to wildfire smoke.

State may reject its first groundwater sustainability plan * Legislators hint at a new climate bond and other bills * California lawmakers and potato growers press Senate to act on ag labor

Tim Schmelzer spoke with Agri-Pulse recently on how the industry occupies a unique space in Sacramento.

Could farmers be forced to get pollution permits? * AFBF concerns an issue for ag labor bill