California Ag Today

The California Department of Public Health is investigating a possible case of bird flu in a worker at a Central Valley dairy facility. The individual, who had contact with infected dairy cattle, reported mild symptoms, including eye redness.

It was the goal of SB 1299 to protect farmworkers from extreme heat by legitimizing the risk in the worker’s comp system.

Dairy Management Inc. has launched a new website to more effectively communicate the full national and local impact of the dairy checkoff to farmers and importers.

Congressmen David G. Valadao (R-CA) and Jimmy Panetta (D-CA) have introduced the bipartisan Agriculture Disaster Relief Supplemental Appropriations Act after months of collaborative work on agricultural disaster relief.

The 108th Annual California Cattlemen’s Association (CCA) and California CattleWomen’s (CCW) Convention and Tradeshow is happening December 4th through the 6th at the Grand Sierra Resort in Reno, Nevada.

The West Coast Smoke Exposure Task Force has now launched a new website designed to help growers, winemakers, and vintners with the latest research on the impacts of wildfire smoke.

The California Avocado Commission stands strongly opposed to a USDA decision to authorize Mexico’s Agriculture and Rural Development Ministry to do inspections of avocado orchards whose harvests are designated for export to the U.S.

As of Monday, the USDA’s Animal and Plant Health Inspection Service (APHIS) has confirmed several new H5N1 avian flu instances in California dairy cattle, bringing the state up dramatically as far as total occurrences over a very short period of time.

Affectionately known as the "death tax," current rules setting the estate tax at just under $14 million are soon to sunset.

With a comment period two weeks past, the USDA’s Federal Milk Marketing Order reform process is nearing its end.