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The California Rice Commission hosted 5 experts to speak to their membership about issues they will face in 2017. Issues ranged from the new administration, the farm bill to potential new flow requirements for the Sacramento River. Todd Manley, Director of Government Affairs...

The Sites Project Authority will file a Notice of Preparation that the Sites Project Authority (SPA) will be the lead agency for the California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) document for the Sites Reservoir. This is one of many steps that he SPA will take to qualify for money from the Proposition 1...

You might have thought that you had commented on the proposal of Sacramento Municipal Utility District (SMUD) and the Western Area Power Administration (WAPA) for the proposed...

At the recent Family Water Alliance, Inc. (FWA) dinner former, FWA executive Ashley Indrieri presented FWA with the Pacific Legal Foundation (PLF) Friends in Freedom Award. The award honors FWA’s support of the PLF mission in the nation’s courts for limited government, property rights...

At the recent meeting of The Society for Environmental Journalist’s panel on water and the drought, a question came from a reporter from the MidWest. “California food feeds people all over the world. Why do we depend on California to feed the world…wouldn’t it be better if every region...

FBNews, the online/digital newsletter of the American Farm Bureau Federation, this week began posting responses from the Democratic and Republican presidential nominees on a range of issues that concern farmers and ranchers the most. AFBF asked...