Madera County Farm Bureau News
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RSSAg Today Thursday, July 29, 2010
July 29, 2010
Governor vetoes farmworkers overtime bill [San Francisco Chronicle]
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Ag Today Wednesday, July 28, 2010
July 28, 2010
Debate over genetically modified animals heats up [KTVU/Oakland]
While advocates argue that genetically engineered animals offer a promise of more affordable and more abundant food, opponents say it will only make profits more abundant and that the food could make you sick...
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Ag Today Tuesday, July 27, 2010
July 27, 2010
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July 26, 2010
Ag Today Monday, July 26, 2010
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Ag Today Friday, July 23, 2010
July 23, 2010
Fate of open-field burning up in the air at Florez hearing [Bakersfield Californian]
The battle over burning is heating up again...
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Ag Today Thursday, July 22, 2010
July 22, 2010
Editorial: Farmworker OT bill not necessary [Modesto Bee]
Once again, emotion has overridden sensible business economics in Sacramento, where the Legislature has passed a bill that would require farmers to pay overtime to workers after eight hours a day or 40 hours a week…...
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Ag Today Wednesday, July 21, 2010
July 21, 2010
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July 20, 2010
Ag Today Tuesday, July 20, 2010
Governor may sign-off on overtime for farmworkers [NBC Bay Area]
Overtime for farm workers is long overdue -- that's the message Senate Majority Leader Dean Florez of Shafter and the head of the United Farm workers Union will try to deliver to Gov...
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Ag Today Monday, July 19, 2010
July 19, 2010
Possible link to heat exposure investigated in 5 California worker deaths [Sacramento Bee]
As Gov...
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Ag Today Friday, July 16, 2010
July 16, 2010
Feds want jailed tomato king to pay for lawyer room [Sacramento Bee]
All-out hostilities have broken out between lawyers for tomato king Scott Salyer and federal prosecutors over the way he and his lawyers are doing business at the jail and the way the prosecutors are monitoring his phone calls and mail...
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Ag Today Thursday, July 15, 2010
July 15, 2010
Report: Kern's 2009 crop value down 10...
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Ag Today Tuesday, July 13, 2010
July 14, 2010
California farmworkers may get 40-hour workweek [San Francisco Chronicle]
… But under a proposed law, Serrano and an estimated 700,000 hourly agricultural employees in California are poised to become the first farmworkers in the nation to receive overtime after 40 hours a week or eight hours a day, if Gov...
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Ag Today Monday, July 12, 2010
July 13, 2010
Illegal workers swept from jobs in ‘silent raids’ [New York Times]
The Obama administration has replaced immigration raids at factories and farms with a quieter enforcement strategy: sending federal agents to scour companies’ records for illegal immigrant workers...
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Ag Today Friday, July 9, 2010
July 12, 2010
Central Coast farm groups decry water regulations [Monterey County Herald]
Proposed state regulations for water running off irrigated land is drawing opposition from Central Coast farm groups...
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Ag Today Thursday, July 8, 2010
July 12, 2010
Farmworker OT bill draws critics, supporters [Porterville Recorder]
A Tulare County Farm Bureau official is urging Gov...
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Ag Today Wednesday, July 7, 2010
July 12, 2010
Water board to extend ag waiver [Santa Maria Times]
A regional water quality control board appears set to stick with the old and work on the new when it comes to agricultural water runoff regulations...
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Ag Today Thursday, July 1, 2010
July 12, 2010
Editorial: No real option but to delay water bond on state ballot [Fresno Bee]
While we have been strong supporters of the bond, it’s clear that it would be defeated in November...
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Ag Today Wednesday, June 30, 2010
July 12, 2010
Schwarzenegger wants $11-billion water bond off the November ballot [Los Angeles Times]
After an exhausting political fight to put an $11...
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Ag Today Tuesday, June 29, 2010
June 29, 2010
FDA urges less antibiotics in meat [Los Angeles Times]
Meat producers should use certain antibiotics only to assure animal health and stop using the drugs to increase production and promote growth, the Food and Drug Administration said Monday...
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Ag Today Monday, June 28, 2010
June 28, 2010
New state agency tries to revive delta [San Francisco Chronicle]
Over the past 10 years, California spent more than $3...
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Ag Today Friday, June 25, 2010
June 25, 2010
DOJ wants to promote fairness in dairy industry [Associated Press]
The federal government's top antitrust investigator told hundreds of farmers, lobbyists and others at a hearing Friday that the Department of Justice is keeping close watch on the nation's dairy industry...
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Ag Today Thursday, June 24, 2010
June 24, 2010
Both sides claim victory in water compromise [Fresno Bee]
Water users have reached a short-term compromise with environmentalists and their federal government allies on Sacramento-San Joaquin Delta pumping levels that face potential cutbacks to protect the threatened delta smelt...
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Ag Today Wednesday, June 23, 2010
June 23, 2010
Fresno Co...
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Ag Today Tuesday, June 22, 2010
June 22, 2010
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Ag Today Monday, June 21, 2010
June 21, 2010
High court lifts ban on biotech alfalfa [Associated Press]
The Supreme Court on Monday ruled that a federal judge went too far when he banned the planting of genetically engineered alfalfa seeds after claims that the plants might harm the environment...
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