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How the Smith-Lever Act Created 4-H and Transformed Rural America
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David Tangipa: Fighting for California Farmers and Rejecting Proposition 50
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Why Prop 50 Threatens Rural Representation: California Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglass
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David Tangipa Slams Insurance Commissioner and Prop 50 on AgNet News Hour
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How Rural Electrification Transformed U.S. Farms
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Shannon Douglass Doubles Down on Prop 50 Opposition
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Gage A. Kent and the Birth of Kent Feeds
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Mando Perez: Innovation & Leadership in California Ag
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Mando Perez of Semios Named CAPCA Member of the Year
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California’s Water Puzzle: Insights from Avid Water’s Cory Broad
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Corey Broad of Avid Water on California’s Fixable Water Crisis
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Purina’s Checkerboard Logo: An Agricultural Icon
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