Category Archives: Agriculture News

FRESNO (KMJ) — The Temperance Flat project has taken a big step toward becoming a reality. A formal request to ask for $1.3 billion of state funding is now signed and awaiting consideration by t...

A new report by the nonpartisan Migration Policy Institute finds the number of undocumented farm workers dropped over a 14-year period. Between 2000 and 2014, the report says undocumented workers in t...

A Chinese firm made big news in 2013 by spending $4.7 billion to acquire U.S. processor Smithfield Foods. In that same deal, the company also acquired over 146,000 acres of U.S. farmland worth more $5...

The Department of Agriculture says almond growers were the top users of pollination services in 2016. Farmers growing crops that depend on pollination can rely on wild pollinators in the area or pay b...

House Agriculture Committee Chairman Mike Conaway says work on the 2018 Farm Bill will start within the next eight weeks. Speaking during a farm bill listening session in his home state of Texas, Cona...

U.S. poultry producers say the modernization of the North American Free Trade Agreement could bring trade improvements. The National Chicken Council and the USA Poultry & Egg Export Council togeth...

Image courtesy of the Visalia Convention Center VISALIA (KMJ) — A bacon eating contest is one part of a new festival taking place in Visalia this weekend. Organizers hope “Boots, Brews, &a...

The Environmental Protection Agency and the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers will formally propose to withdraw the "Waters of the U.S. Rule," a controversial Obama-era rule on clean water. This move will ...

 British International Trade Secretary Liam Fox and U.S. Trade Representative Robert Lighthizer have taken the first steps towards a U.S.-U.K. free trade agreement. They recently met to create a ...

The Soft Bank Group is leading a $200 million investment into an indoor vertical farm venture in California. The Soft Bank Vision Fund is investing in Plenty, a San Francisco startup that claims it ha...