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From a Small Business Administration announcement President Trump has signed a bill providing additional funds for SBA programs providing COVID-related disaster assistance to small businesses: The Paycheck Protection Program (PPP) will receive an additional $310 billion – with $60B of … Continue reading →

CDFA’s State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program, SWEEP, provides grants to implement irrigation systems that reduce greenhouse gases and save water on California agricultural operations. Eligible system components include (among others) soil moisture monitoring, drip systems, switching to low pressure … Continue reading →

By CDFA Secretary Karen Ross As we take this moment to note the 50th anniversary of Earth Day, I’d like to call attention to our farmers, ranchers and farm workers; and the great work they do every day, no matter what Mother … Continue reading →

As international observers of Earth Day recognize its 50th year this week, CDFA would like to note an essential relationship between farmers and the Earth that goes back many centuries. Farmers and ranchers are stewards of the land while providing … Continue reading →

By Dan Walters The first few days of the coronavirus crisis revealed that the veneer of civilization may be thinner than we assumed. Americans quickly stripped supermarket shelves of toilet paper, paper towels and other household commodities. The panicky, almost … Continue reading →

From the California Grown Blog An Open Letter to Our Nation’s Retailers and Food Distributors from CDFA Secretary Karen Ross Thank you! As much of our daily lives has changed in significant ways, you continue to serve in providing an essential … Continue reading →

By Farrah Lynn Ezzeddine I pulled on my surgical gloves, readjusted my face shield and took a deep breath. Waiting in a line facing me were unmasked seniors and young people. Their primary worry is not the coronavirus pandemic. Nor is … Continue reading →

By David Yaffe-Bellamy and Michael Corkery In Wisconsin and Ohio, farmers are dumping thousands of gallons of fresh milk into lagoons and manure pits. An Idaho farmer has dug huge ditches to bury 1 million pounds of onions. And in South Florida, … Continue reading →

By Tom Karst The Packer’s Tom Karst visited April 6 with Scott Horsfall, CEO of the California Leafy Greens Marketing Agreement. Horsfall related how the staff of the LGMA has adapted to the shelter-at-home guidance in California related to the … Continue reading →