By Alastair Bland I first tuned in to murmurs about plastic pollution in the late 1980s, when my mom would send me and my siblings to school with lunches packed in brown paper bags and wax-based sandwich wrappers. Compostable was...
By Ching Lee, Ag Alert After a storm dumped more than an inch of water on parts of Northern California earlier this month, effectively halting fieldwork, rice farmers have since been going full throttle. Throughout the Sacramento Valley, aerial applicators...
Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It’s full of forever chemicals. By Zoya Teirstein This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency designated two types of...
Press release from the California Farm Water Coalition: The California Farm Water Coalition has released two new fact sheets that provide valuable insights into the amount of water required to produce the food Californians consume on a daily basis. The...
By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising temperatures, declining precipitation and decades of...
