…produce is tested using state-of-the-art equipment for 300 types of pesticides operated by the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA). The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency sets standards allowing each…
Federal Pesticide Changes Mirror California Rules
New pesticide regulations issued by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency mean state regulations will need to change to harmonize with the federal rules—but in California, observers expect those changes to…
Judge Orders Nationwide Stay of WOTUS Rule
…took effect Aug. 28, was proposed in April 2014 by the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers to clarify the agencies’ authority under the Clean…
Growth Energy Praises NCGA and NFU’s Work to Highlight the Importance of the RFS to Farm Income
…it is directly tied to farm income. The white paper outlines how the Environmental Protection Agency’s (EPA) proposed Renewable Volume Obligations for 2014, 2015 and 2016 will drastically cut back…
The Western View: The Clampers
…“the comic strip on the page of California history.” New chapters rapidly sprang up, with whimsical names and titles, and they began creating memorials in places where important things happened…
California Ag Leads the Nation in Funding for Specialty Crops
…world.” With the $19.7 million, the CDFA will fund 66 projects focusing on market enhancement, specialty crop access and nutrition education, equipping current and next-generation specialty crop farmers, environmental stewardship…
Ag Sec. Vilsack Talks TPP
…labor. It includes the highest environmental standards in history, and prevents overfishing, and makes sure that wildlife trafficking isn’t decimating wildlife that are a world treasure. And so unlike past…
USDA Awards $113 Million to Support Specialty Crop Production, Grow Opportunities for Rural Communities
…$46,253 Agriculture & Environmental Geographic Information Systems, Great Falls, Va., $46,257 Washington State University, Pullman, Wash., $2,688,111 University of Wisconsin, Madison, Wisc., $226,906 USDA Agricultural Research Service, Peoria, Ill., $3,672,482…
Statement by the President on the Trans-Pacific Partnership
…so that they can win in the global economy. TPP Includes the Strongest Environmental Protections of Any Trade Agreement in History TPP includes the highest environmental standards of any trade…
UC Berkeley to Lead Study of Crop Drought Tolerance
…and Natural Resources, the Energy Department’s Joint Genome Institute and that agency’s Pacific Northwest National Laboratory on the five-year project, called Epigenetic Control of Drought Response in Sorghum, or EPICON….
CDFA Funds $9.38 Million to Assist Farmers in Drought
…the CDFA Office of Environmental Farming and Innovation, which obtains its authority for such incentive programs through the Environmental Farming Act of 1995. The act mandates the department to establish…
USDA Funds New Pilot Project
The Almond Board of California (ABC) will join with the Environmental Defense Fund (EDF) and other partners in carrying out a new USDA-funded pilot project designed to give both almond…
Groups Mobilize Aid in the Wake of Big Wildfires
…wildfire disasters—the Emergency Watershed Protection Program, in particular, as well the Environmental Quality Incentives Program. USDA officials said arrangements have been made with a ranch on the perimeter of the…
USDA Extends Dairy Margin Protection Program Deadline
…protections offered by this program, because despite the very best forecasts, markets can change.” Vilsack encouraged producers to use the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s Farm Agency Service (FSA) online Web…
