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Californians deserve safe and breathable air

by Guest Commentary January 8, 2021January 7, 2021

If we can rethink our habits of polluting the air that we breathe, we can improve our air quality in California and the Central Valley.

California farmers looking for regulatory sanity

by Guest Commentary December 21, 2020December 20, 2020

Grapes are harvested from a vineyard as smoke from a massive wildfire fills the air near Oakville, on Oct. 13, 2017. Photo by Rich Pedroncelli, AP Photo

New bill pushes California to stock, distribute masks to farmworkers during wildfires

by Kate Cimini December 9, 2020December 9, 2020

We can find common ground to solve challenging water issues

by Guest Commentary November 30, 2020November 24, 2020

A farmworker holds a box of strawberries with his left hand and a one wheel cart with his right as he walks to get another empty box in Watsonville, on Wednesday, July 29, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian

Do California ag counties hold solutions to Monterey County farmworker housing crisis?

by Kate Cimini November 23, 2020November 23, 2020

A bus parked in front of El Dorado Motel drops off farmworkers as a van that also transports farmworkers drives right next to it in Salinas on Aug. 1, 2020. Photo by David Rodriguez, The Salinas Californian

State mandates emergency workplace COVID-19 protections, less crowding for guest farmworkers

by Jackie Botts November 19, 2020December 18, 2020

Newsom signs COVID-19 protections for agricultural workers

by Kate Cimini October 1, 2020October 7, 2020

A housekeeper cleans a room at the Colonial Motel in Santa Maria on July 15, 2020. The motel is one of the locations where Alco Harvesting houses H-2A farmworkers. Photo by Len Wood, Santa Maria Times

First county announces new COVID-19 protections for temporary ag workers

by Jackie Botts September 17, 2020October 7, 2020

Farmworkers go through fields along Pine Canyon Road as the hillsides behind them burn steadily through the afternoon on Aug. 19, 2020. Photo by Ayrton Ostly/The Californian

Smoke, ash from River Fire raises questions about produce, farmworker safety

by Kate Cimini August 27, 2020September 28, 2020

ports and exports

Protection of the California agriculture-port relationship should be a top priority

by Guest Commentary August 8, 2020August 6, 2020