Brad Hooker
Policy Reporter at Agri-Pulse
Sacramento journalist covering California ag, labor and environmental policy for @agripulsewest. Latest articles at: https://t.co/VASOBP8z6H…
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6 days ago |
agri-pulse.com | Brad Hooker
While Southern California ports are now seeing a 13% decrease in incoming cargo ships, U.S. exports had jumped in March ahead of President Donald Trump’s sweeping tariffs and retaliatory actions from trading partners. California’s exports that month saw nearly 8% year-over-year growth, hitting more than $16 billion, according to a new analysis from Beacon Economics. U.S. exports overall “jumped by a robust 6.5%”.
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1 week ago |
agri-pulse.com | Brad Hooker
Western lawmakers have reintroduced legislation to reform the H-2A guestworker program and create a pathway to legal status for undocumented farmworkers. California Rep. Zoe Lofgren is leading the House bill, with a bipartisan coalition including Reps. David Valadao, Jim Costa and Adam Gray. Lofgren called it essential to “provide stability to this critical workforce.” The bill has stalled three times in the Senate. On that note: Sen.
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1 week ago |
agri-pulse.com | Brad Hooker
The State Board of Food and Agriculture hosted a four-hour hearing Tuesday to survey trade impacts to ag and probe for opportunities. The central message from the speakers was to maintain existing trade partnerships whenever possible. Yet some had more specifics takeaways for California’s specialty crop exporters, most notably Darci Vetter, a former chief ag negotiator during the Obama administration and now a principal at Sower Strategies.
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1 week ago |
agri-pulse.com | Brad Hooker
The California Legislature is considering a second attempt at relaxing requirements for Williamson Act contracts on conservation easements. The goal is to free up San Joaquin Valley farmland fallowed under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act to convert into large-scale solar development. The proposal has pitted the Western Growers Association and the Almond Alliance against the California Farm Bureau and other opponents, reviving a standoff that stalled a 2024 bill.
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1 week ago |
agri-pulse.com | Brad Hooker
Researchers are warning the Trump administration’s halt to Colorado River drought grants could upend decades of conservation gains. In a new paper, UC economists point to 20 years of success with financing ag projects. Farms were far more cost-effective than cities in cutting use, averaging $405 per acre-foot compared to more than $6,000 for municipalities.
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