In the heart of California’s Central Valley, generations of farm families are facing a new kind of crisis — too much water one year, not enough the next and mounting regulations that could determine ...

For many decades, California has been the leading agricultural state in terms of the value of agricultural goods, marketed, generating $58 billion in agricultural cash receipts in 2023, outpacing ...

California Farm Bureau President Shannon Douglas discusses labor, trade, Prop 50, and innovation shaping the future of California farming.

It would be impossible to overstate the complexity of water supply management in California. Hundreds of federal, state and local agencies decree who or what is supplied with water, when and how much ...

“We’re farmers. We’d rather farm,” Franson ... “An uncomfortable truth California must reckon with is that we are facing a significant lack of access to water across many of our rural counties,” Wicks ...

The Fresno Bee Editorial Board says the agriculture secretary has plenty to learn about California's $61.2 billion agricultural industry.

In better times, droves of young winter-run Chinook salmon would travel 300 miles downstream from the Sacramento River, beneath the Golden Gate Bridge and into the Pacific. They would return as adults ...