The Wonderful Company recently announced plans to power its entire U.S. operation using only renewable energy by 2025. The Los Angeles-based agricultural company is joining a larger group of other…
Ag Employers Urged to Weigh in on Nighttime Labor Regulations
The opportunity for public comment on the proposed changes to nighttime labor regulations for the agricultural industry is nearing its end. The Division of Occupational Safety and Health (Cal/OSHA) is…
California Antique Farm Equipment Show Opens April 12
…14 and feature antique tractor exhibits, trucks and other agricultural engines along with various vendors and multiple family-friendly activities. “We go from World Ag Expo that’s very ‘business-y’ to kind…
Make the Border Wall an Asset not a Liability
…2,000 mile solar and wind energy park and transmission route. Some of the electricity would power massive desalination plants, which would travel by pipeline to new agricultural, industrial, and community…
USDA Census of Agriculture One Week Away
Videos on how to use Census data are now available The United States Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) will release the 2017 Census of Agriculture results…
USDA Launches New Farmers.gov Features to Help with H2A Applications, Managing Loans
…timeline built around a farmer’s hiring needs. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=E-TXREaZhnI&feature=youtu.be The H-2A Visa Program – also known as the temporary agricultural workers program – helps American farmers fill employment gaps by hiring…
AFBF Concerned about Labor, Trade if Border Closed
…their workers to arrive on time, ready to help tend and harvest this year’s crops. We are hopeful the administration will take concrete steps to ensure that H-2A workers can…
Seed Industry Storms the Hill
…harmonizing the agricultural biotechnology trait approval process. LEARN MORE. AGRICULTURE RESEARCH: Building on other targeted fly-ins throughout the year, ASTA members will be reinforcing the need for continued funding for…
App Brings STEM Agriculture Games to Youth
…resources are made possible through the generous support of title sponsor Corteva Agriscience, Agricultural Division of Dow DuPont. To take advantage of the free My American Farm resources, games and…
California Climate Investments Make Progress on Emissions Goal
…more than $3.4 billion that has been made available to eligible projects. Other programs that have benefitted from the investment program include the provision of agricultural worker vanpools and agricultural…
Ag Groups Urge Congress to Include Water in Infrastructure Package
…than 100 agricultural and water organizations, including Western Growers, California Farm Bureau Federation, and Western Agricultural Processors Association, took part in sending a letter addressed to members of the House…
Almond Update: Ag Equipment Survey Response Needed, Deadline Approaching
…that the survey is similar to one done in 2008 and covers all mobile agricultural equipment including tractors, combines, balers, agricultural-use ATVs, forklifts and more. The online survey takes only…
CDFA Secretary Ross Receives Agriculturalist of the Year Award
…was recognized as the 2019 State Fair Agriculturalist of the Year at last week’s California Ag Day at the Capitol event. The announcement was made earlier in the month and…
Cregan Named Fresno County Ag Commissioner
The Board of Supervisors has appointed Melissa Cregan to the position of Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights & Measures for the County of Fresno Department of Agriculture retroactively effective March 11,…