…rubber-stamp Scott Pruitt, the Oklahoma Attorney General Trump has nominated to take over as Chief of the Environmental Protection Agency. Pruitt isn’t a believer in climate change and isn’t a…
EPA Nominee Opposes RFS, WOTUS
…the legal and scientific basis for the Obama administration to attack climate change, saying, “Scientists continue to disagree about the extent of climate change and its connection to the actions…
Incentives for Conservation Reserve Program Participants
…ranchers and landowners have willingly stepped up to address the growing impacts of a changing climate. With USDA’s support, they are working to implement voluntary practices that improve air and…
Meeting Growing Demand for Organic Products
…mitigation, and biodiversity. Improving technologies, methods, model development and other metrics to document, describe and optimize the environmental services and climate change mitigation ability of organic farming systems. Developing cultural…
Ross Updates Almond Industry on Focus
California Agriculture Secretary Karen Ross updated the almond industry on the governor’s agriculture projects and focus moving into next year. Ross said fiscal stability and climate change continue to be…
Agri View: Smart Shoppers
Everett Griner talks about smart shoppers buying food like WIC shoppers in today’s Agri View. Smart Shoppers What’s most important for people when shopping for food? For most people its…
Conservation Opportunities to Improve Water Quality
…and tended to privately, and America’s farmers, ranchers and landowners have willingly stepped up to address the growing impacts of a changing climate. With USDA’s support, they are working to…
Funding for Robotic Research
…childhood obesity, improve and sustain rural economic growth, address water availability issues, increase food production, find new sources of energy, mitigate climate variability, and ensure food safety. To learn more…
World Soil Day: Celebrating the Magic Beneath
…rolling out its very own Healthy Soils Program, financed as part of the California Climate Investments funded with Cap-and-Trade funds. The Healthy Soils Program recognizes the climate change benefits of…
Edible Plants You Re-Grow
…from many fruits can be replanted, though often they will grow into trees, which may or many not eventually bear fruit, depending on climate, pollination, and location. So why not…
Proposed Tax Regulation a Threat to Future Cattle Farms
…from one generation to the next.” The proposed regulations under Section 2704 will have a profoundly negative impact on the business climate for farmers and ranchers, ultimately dis-incentivizing a new…
Agri View: Food Production Impact
…fungicide use. And ending all GMO production. Now you just think how that would change the climate. And how healthy our environment would be. Then he began to show how…
Stink Bug Could Infest by the Tens of Thousands
…Mediterranean climate of the major agriculture areas. “We don’t know if it can survive in these hot, dry summers here in the Central Valley,” he said. “We do know it’s…
CA State Plan: Make Water Conservation A Way of Life
…climate, landscape, and demographic conditions. “Californians rose to the challenge during this historic drought and recognized that conservation is critical in the face of an uncertain future. This plan is…