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PRO*ACT updates California road conditions and closures

Pro*Act News: California Road Conditions and Closures, posted January 12 from Pro*Act’s LinkedIn: Monterey, CA-based Pro*Act says to plan extra...

2 years ago 1 minute read

California ponders uses of storm excess

In California, 2023 is turning out to be a 40-year anniversary repeat of 1983. I lived in San Francisco then....

2 years ago 4 minute read

Canadian disquiet over lettuce shortage

No one should fault the California leafy greens industry for its disastrous season, which is coming to an end now....

2 years ago 4 minute read

Sweet and sour citrus news

At this point, news about U.S. citrus is coming in two flavors: sweet and sour. The sour part has to...

2 years ago 4 minute read

Gov. Newsom signs farm worker bill

California governor Gavin Newsom has signed legislation promoted by the United Farm Workers union (UFW) that will make it easier...

3 years ago 3 minute read

Florida’s citrus acreage continues to shrink

Is citrus a vanishing industry in Florida? Recent figures released by USDA’s National Agricultural Statistics Service (NASS) indicate that the...

3 years ago 2 minute read

Newsom gets another chance to sign ag labor bill

California governor Gavin Newsom has been given another chance to approve legislation governing union elections for farmworkers. Newsom vetoed similar...

3 years ago 2 minute read

Fears of a megaflood in drought-plagued California

I remember the first three months of 1983. I was living in San Francisco. It rained every day. It didn’t...

3 years ago 3 minute read

California gets serious about water

Maybe Californians will have to give up their lawns. That’s one tiny part of the new water policy recommendations issued...

3 years ago 4 minute read

California begins fresh fig season

MADERA, Calif., Aug. 9, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — California’s Fresh Fig season is officially underway, according to the California Fresh Fig...

3 years ago 4 minute read

A water tale of two states

They’re right next to each other, and despite wild differences, they have one thing in common: water worries. They’re known...

3 years ago 4 minute read

California’s future without agriculture

Well, this is embarrassing. Or it ought to be. For somebody. Namely, for the Institute for the Future and the...

3 years ago 2 minute read

California Goodness Campaign highlights pride in growing table grapes

Fresno, CA – With the harvest underway in both the Coachella and San Joaquin valleys, California grapes are available around...

3 years ago 2 minute read

A plea to Gov. Newsom for a water policy

Leading California business associations, including the Western Growers Association BB #:144734, the California Farm Bureau Federation, the California Fresh Fruit...

3 years ago 4 minute read

CDFA secretary tours the SF Wholesale Produce Market

SAN FRANCISCO, CA – The SF Market, a wholesale produce market that is home to 26 merchant businesses in the...

3 years ago 5 minute read

California adds another minimum wage increase

California governor Gavin Newsom has announced an additional state minimum wage hike, to become effective on January 1, 2023. Currently...

3 years ago 2 minute read

Fruit World expects strong citrus production through April

REEDLEY, CA — Fruit World, BB #:187196 a family-owned, flavor-focused grower-shipper of organic and conventional citrus and more, is reporting...

3 years ago 4 minute read

USDA to purchase $30MM in U.S. table grapes in 2022

Fresno, CA – The United States Department of Agriculture (USDA) will purchase U.S.-grown table grapes as part of its 2022...

3 years ago 1 minute read
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