Additional sales opportunities for some California farmers and ranchers should open with implementation of the new USMC trade agreement that took effect last Wednesday.
Despite the shocks the pandemic has delivered to the food system, the chief economist at the U.S. Department of Agriculture says people "can continue to rely on abundant food supplies."
More vineyards will be removed in California this year, as farmers and wineries work to correct an imbalance of their inventories in supply and demand.
Agricultural tourism continues to grow. Commodities such as grapes, fruit and nut trees, and specialty livestock had a positive impact on tourism revenues.
A ruling last week allows the U.S. to hit European countries with $7.5 billion worth of annual tariffs in retaliation for damages done by subsidies given to Airbus.
**For those wondering why the proposal to withdraw the WOTUS rule, announced June 27th, hasn’t appeared officially in the Federal Register … blame the formatting. EPA sent the prepublication version of the proposed rule to the Office of the Federal Register the next day, but it…