Category Archives: Agriculture News

The California Department of Pesticide Regulation reports that the state used less fumigants and carcinogenic pesticides in 2013 than the previous year, according to data in the Annual Summary of Pest...

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SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California water regulators adopted sweeping, unprecedented restrictions Tuesday on how people, governments and businesses can use water amid the state’s ongoing drough...

Senators Amy Klobuchar and Chuck Grassley along with 13 other Senators, send a letter to leaders of the Senate Appropriations Committee to ensure USDA's Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service rece...

USDA sent a farm bill-required study to the House and Senate Agriculture Committees last week that says Country-of-Origin Labeling has no economic benefit to the meat industry.House Ag Chair Mike Cona...

SAN DIEGO (AP) – Extreme drought conditions have left an estimated 12 million trees dead in California’s forests over the past year.The estimate comes from a U.S. Forest Service aerial sur...

U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack will meet with the G-20 agriculture ministers in Istanbul. The meeting will focus on food waste, which Vilsack says is different in developed countries accord...

Senators John Barrasso of Wyoming and Joe Donnelly of Indiana are introducing bipartisan legislation to repeal EPA's proposed Waters of the U.S. rule. This legislation would require EPA and the Army C...

FRESNO (KMJ) — With efforts to curtail the amount of water we use – valley horticulturists are being asked to cut back too – but that doesn’t mean letting your yard go brown.Ne...

SACRAMENTO, Calif. (AP) - California’s Democratic senators have called out Gov. Jerry Brown over water spending, saying that in the face of the relentless drought the state should approve funds ...