…worldwide. The U.S. Department of Agriculture, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration, and the U.S. Environmental Protection Agency have all reaffirmed their long-standing recognition of the safety of the technology….
Stanford Study on Salinity of Deep Groundwater
From: Proceedings of the National Academy of Sciences of the United States of America Salinity of deep groundwater in California: Water quantity, quality, and protection by Mary Kanga,1 and Robert B. Jacksona,b,c…
More Groundwater Found in Central Valley
…Protection Agency deems drinkable if treated – the number was one in three. Jackson and Kang stress that just because a company has hydraulically fractured or used some other chemical…
June Dairy Market Report
…to March, while the monthly Margin Protection Program feed cost calculation rose by 64 cents per hundredweight. Those changes put the bimonthly MPP margin for March-April at $7.15 per hundredweight,triggering…
Climate Smart Israel – Visiting the ‘Financial Innovations Lab’
…travels through Israel neared their conclusion, our delegation participated in the Financial Innovations Lab of the California-Israel Global Innovation Partnership, sponsored by the Jerusalem Institute for Israel Studies Milken Innovation…
Farming from the Heart- Cal Poly Student’s Forestry Insight
…be a burn in California, which damages the industry. She says that although large and uncontrolled fires are detremental, there are environmental and financial advantages to doing controlled burns. Tori…
Senate Biotechnology Compromise
…and innovation, and end the patchwork of state laws threatening interstate commerce. Unfortunately, due to Senator Stabenow dragging this process out for months, Congress will not be able to act…
Climate Smart Israel – to Jerusalem and the Sea of Galilee
…joined our delegation at a dinner hosted by the Milken Institute in preparation for today’s Innovation Lab visit. Delegation members were energized by their earlier discussion with the dynamic manager…
USDA Announces Key Measures to Improve Pollinator Health
…possible to pollinators and that beekeepers understand how they can benefit from USDA’s conservation and safety net programs. For several years, USDA’s Farm Service Agency (FSA) and Natural Resources Conservation…
Western View: Reason for National Monuments
…The act states that it is intended for: “… the protection of objects of historic and scientific interest.” When those intentions are observed, we end up protecting land in a…
U.S. EPA Fines Fresno Pesticide Distributor for Failure to Properly Label High-Risk Pesticide
The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency announced a settlement with Snowden Enterprises, Inc., over the distribution of a misbranded restricted use pesticide. The firm, located in Fresno, Calif., has agreed to…
ASTA New Leadership to Guide Future of Seed Industry
…facing the industry is the general lack of understanding–by the public, legislators, and regulators—about how the seed industry operates and why innovation in plant breeding is vital, not only to…
Climate Smart Israel – the Negev Desert
…dryland agriculture and biotechnology; and, environmental studies and solar science (this includes social sciences and architecture). Climate change studies are a part of all these. The delegation discusses water and…
Agri View: GMO Law
…material difference. Subtitle B–Department of Agriculture (Sec. 111) This bill amends the Plant Protection Act to allow the sale of a GMO food (including imported food and excluding plant pests)…
