When President-elect Donald Trump takes office in January, he is likely to have an Agriculture Secretary with ties to Indiana. Indiana Governor Mike Pence, who will serve as Trump’s Vice…
More Than 100 Million Dead Trees in California
…die-off. As a result, in October 2015 California Governor Jerry Brown declared a state of emergency on the unprecedented tree die-off and formed a Tree Mortality Task Force to help…
Vilsack as Chief of Staff for Clinton Possible
…secretary Karen Ross, former Arkansas Senator Blanche Lincoln, former USDA deputy secretary Kathleen Merrigan, Colorado Governor John Hickenlooper and former Kentucky Governor Steve Beshear. The Clinton Transition team told the…
CA’s Ross Possible Clinton Ag Secretary
…described the person as “more surprising.” Beshears is a former Democratic governor of Kentucky. Ross is a former chief of staff for Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack and is the current…
North Carolina Flooding Kills Thousands of Livestock
Estimates are that flooding has killed tens of thousands of livestock in North Carolina as a result of Hurricane Matthew. Governor Pat Mcrory said officials would work to clean up…
Preventing Straying of Adult Sacramento River Salmon
…passage projects are integral to achieving Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s direction to state agencies to begin restoration of at least 30,000 acres in the Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta over the…
California Saw Snow Drought in 2016
…conservation a California way of life remains a statewide goal and a top priority in Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s State Water Action Plan. Furthermore, responding to climate change is…
CDFA Collaborates on Draft ‘Vibrant Communities and Landscapes’
…Resources Agency, California State Transportation Agency, California Health and Human Services Agency, California Department of Food and Agriculture, the Strategic Growth Council, and the Governor’s Office of Planning and Research….
California Governor Signs Farm Worker Overtime Bill
Credit: Richard Thornton / Shutterstock.com California’s Democratic Governor Jerry Brown signed a bill that would raise the state’s farmworker wages for overtime. The San Francisco Chronicle reports that the United…
Governor Signs Ag Overtime Bill
California Governor Jerry Brown signed the ag overtime bill, Assembly Bill 1066, which will phase in new overtime rules for agricultural employees over the next four years. The bill was…
Proposals for Delta Habitat Restoration
…program to fulfill Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr.’s direction to State agencies to begin restoration of at least 30,000 acres in the Delta over the next five years. In addition,…
Support for the Salton Sea
…for waterfowl and shorebirds. The MOU affirms California’s leading role in resource mitigation and a commitment by the State and Interior that will further the objectives established by Governor Edmund…
State Seeks Way to Solve ‘A Big Biomass Problem’
…Wood, who introduced Assembly Bill 1923 to assist biomass and biogas facilities, said the governor and Legislature understand the importance of the issue, but the state “has not created a…
CFBF Encourages Overtime Bill Action
…years and Gives the Governor the authority to postpone a scheduled overtime pay increase if employment in California is declining. Tell your legislators how this legislation will hurt both farmers…