Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:

Sacramento, California - The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is now accepting public comments on draft Requests for Grant Applications (RGA) for the State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program (SWEEP) and Healthy Soils Program (HSP), utilizing $30 million authorized by the Budget Act of 2018, and funded through the California Drought, Water, Parks, Climate, Coastal Protection, and Outdoor Access For All Act of 2018 (SB 5).

Sacramento, California - The California State Board of Food and Agriculture will travel to the Sierra foothills for a two-day meeting addressing foothill farming and forest health issues on Tuesday, July 31, 2018 and Wednesday, August 1, 2018. Meetings and site visits will be held at various locations in El Dorado County.

Sacramento, California - Governor Edmund G. Brown Jr. today announced the following appointments:

Sacramento, California - Nineteen teams of college students from top universities in the U.S., Canada and China will compete to build robots to mechanize farm work at the American Society of Agricultural and Biological Engineers Annual International Meeting in Detroit.

Santa Ana, California - An Orange County man was sentenced to federal prison for his leadership role in a “builder bailout” mortgage fraud scheme.