The California Dept. of Food and Agriculture is accepting public comments until Dec. 24 on its draft Request for Grant Applications (RGAs) for the next round of methane reduction funding.

Agricultural policy has seldom received as much attention as it has in this presidential campaign as Democrats vie for ways to cut into President Donald Trump’s rural base and win Iowa’s first-in-the-nation’s caucuses amid heightened anxiety about the farm economy.

Advanced biofuels made from fibers of corn stover, grasses, wood, and other plants were once pitched as the next boon for the renewable fuels industry, but now their future is cloudy at best as several flagship plants have ceased commercial production.

The potential of digital agriculture to contribute to higher yields through multiple images and high-tech calculations by machinery is slowly being realized, but farmers can’t just sit back and let the machines do the job.

The Trump administration’s deregulatory push has resulted in about $50 billion in savings since 2017, with $13.5 billion of those coming in fiscal 2019 alone, the White House said Dec. 6. The administration fell shy of its goal of eliminating two significant deregulatory actions for every one significant regulatory action, instead achieving a 1.7:1 ratio.

Can you grow more fruits and nuts without bees? For several years, researchers have been trying to perfect the art of artificial pollination, providing an alternative to bees.