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New actions include pulling an emergency brake in the Blueprint for a Safer Economy and strengthening face covering mandate Vast majority of counties are in the most restrictive tier starting tomorrow As COVID-19 cases sharply increase across the country and … Continue reading →

By Andy Walker Members of the Special Committee on Climate Change received a briefing recently on the California Healthy Soils program. Dr. Amrith Gunasekara, Dr. Geetika Joshi and Rachael O’Brien from the California Department of Food and Agriculture appeared via … Continue reading →

From Morning Ag Clips West Side farmer John Diener had flash of inspiration. Why not plant butternut squash? Diener is a long-time research cooperator with UC Cooperative Extension specialist Jeff Mitchell, who has studied innovative, sustainable farming practices for 21 years … Continue reading →

In recognition of Veterans Day tomorrow, here is an encore presentation of a video from CDFA’s award-winning Growing California series. This was produced in 2013.

By John Cox, Bakersfield Californian Tiny wasps are here to save the day! In response to a local surge in detections of a pest threatening to wipe out California’s citrus industry, a coalition of researchers and government officials last (month) … Continue reading →

CDFA secretary Karen Ross appears in this story from the PBS program Market to Market. The portion about California wildfire impacts to Ag begins at 4:00.

With the weather changing and Californians beginning to think more about heating their homes, CDFA is providing a video on the invasive species risk of moving firewood as well as tips from our Division of Measurement Standards for those buying firewood to … Continue reading →

By Lorena Anderson, UC Merced By 2050, the U.S. population is estimated to grow to 400 million, and the world population to 9.1 billion, requiring a 70 percent increase in global food production. UC Merced is one of four campuses … Continue reading →

By Steve Davies More than half of farmers who seeded their cash crop into a growing cover crop last year — a practice known as “planting green” — said it helped them plant earlier than than they could in fields … Continue reading →

NOTE – In an effort to celebrate and highlight the work of California’s farmers, farmworkers, and everyone whose work helps to keep the food supply chain flowing, Governor Newsom has proclaimed October as California Farmer and Farmworker Month. This encore … Continue reading →