The Western View: The Clampers

Taylor HillmanFeatures, General, Western View

…“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…

New USDA Fact Sheets Illustrate State-by-State Benefits of TPP

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…demand for American agricultural products and expanded agricultural exports as a result of the Trans-Pacific Partnership agreement will support stronger commodity prices and increase farm income. Increased exports will support…

California Ag Leads the Nation in Funding for Specialty Crops

Taylor HillmanSpecialty Crops

…These projects represent an ongoing effort to address food safety practices and minimize outbreaks of foodborne illness with proactive research. The 2015 SCBGP project abstracts are available at http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Specialty_Crop_Competitiveness_Grants/pdfs/2015SCBGP_ProjectAbstracts.pdf For…

Ag Sec. Vilsack Talks TPP

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…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…

Statement from Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack Regarding the Agreement on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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…grains, oilseeds, cotton and processed products. “Increased demand for American agricultural products and expanded agricultural exports as a result of this agreement will support stronger commodity prices and increase farm…

Statement by the President on the Trans-Pacific Partnership

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…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

Taylor HillmanDrought, Water

…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….