…healthy storm, the variability of this winter’s weather patterns underscores the importance of continued conservation and the ongoing need to strengthen California’s water supply reliability for our people, our economy,…
USDA Announces More Local Control for School Meal Operations
…Rule, which provides local food service professionals the flexibility they need to serve wholesome, nutritious, and tasty meals in schools across the nation. Releasing “The Food Buying Guide,” a mobile…
Injunction Prohibits Component of Pest Prevention and Management Program
…Food and Agriculture (CDFA). Farmers and other property owners will still be allowed to apply chemical insecticides, but CDFA will no longer be able to spray pesticides on vegetation in…
Celebrating National Nutrition Month
…food choices and developing sound eating and physical activity habits. This year’s theme for National Nutrition Month® is “Go Further with Food.” Whether it’s starting the day off right with…
Senate Confirms Key USTR Nominees
…signed onto a letter with other commodity organizations and agri-business companies, urging prompt confirmation of these nominees. The letter noted that:1) U.S. food and agricultural exports have produced a trade…
Agri View: Eating Healthier
…spend it for prepared foods, it is a healthier food. Everything considered, millennials are healthier than the previous generation. They don’t just live on pasta. That’s Agri View for today….
Bayer AgVocacy Forum Highlights Need for Better Engagement
…what it doesn’t do, and importantly how it helps their daily lives in terms of improving food costs and putting safe, affordable food on their table,” Wallis said. Listen…
U.S. Ag Pays the Price for Trade Disputes
…on to make ends meet. At a time when farm incomes have decreased, while global supply is increasing, it’s important to not take any actions that would result in reducing…
California Young Farmers and Ranchers Win Big at National Conference
…across the country spent over 9,000 hours volunteering and donated nearly 30 million pounds of food, along with $1.1 million to food banks. “California is very active in this program…
Kitchen Spices to Keep Around
…some with medicinal uses (such as digestion and fighting colds), as well cancer-fighting properties. They will also add some much-needed flavor to any food that might be considered bland. So…
Agri View: Technology Expanding
…The clothes you wear from fabrics that didn’t even exist 50 years ago. And the food you eat. Still produced by farmers. But, you take away the technology and half…
Federal Judge Rules in Favor of Agriculture Coalition’s Request to Halt California’s ‘False and Misleading’ Prop 65 Labeling of Glyphosate
…the U.S. The preliminary injunction will halt California’s labeling requirement until a final ruling on the matter is issued by the court. “Farmers work tirelessly to put food on America’s…
Support for Farmers with Disabilities Through Innovative Technology
The U.S. Department of Agriculture’s (USDA) National Institute of Food and Agriculture (NIFA) announced support for the Assistive Technology Program for Farmers with Disabilities (AgrAbility). Funding is provided under the…
USDA Talks to Grocers About the “Harvest Box”
…about their role in a proposal to replace some food stamp allocations with prepackaged boxes of groceries. Perdue told reporters last week that grocers are already adding the delivery service…