India represents a growth economy for U.S. agribusinesses seeking to capture an increasing share of the household food purchases in the fifth-largest economy in the world.
California Secretary of Agriculture Karen Ross visited Solano County Thursday to discuss California Forever, Farm to School programs and housing for farm workers. Ross spoke at a town hall along with state Sen. Melissa Hurtado (District 16) and Assemblymember Lori Wilson (District 11) in an event hosted By the California Association of Family Farms, the Solano County Farm Bureau, Wilson and the Pleasants Valley Agricultural Association at Pleasants Valley Estates Winery. Asked by CAFF how the state could allow an entity to purchase so much land in Solano County, Ross said state officials have little control over the purchase and […]
Leaders from three state agriculture departments and 29 U.S. agribusinesses and organizations will accompany Agriculture Undersecretary for Trade and Foreign Agricultural Affairs Alexis Taylor on a trade mission to Southeast Asia Oct. 30 – Nov..
For more than two decades, volunteers from Village Harvest have picked fruit from backyard trees along the Peninsula and given it to local food banks. Now, harvesting and donating produce in parts of the area has been banned.