On Sunday, September 30, 2018, the constitutional deadline to sign or veto bills passed by the California Legislature, Governor Brown vetoed two contentious anti-employer bills. Both bills - AB 3080 and AB 3081 were argued as addressing workplace misconduct, but in actuality were just another attempt by the author Assembly Woman Lorena Gonzalez Fletcher (made [...]
The California Air Resources Board's (CARB) Funding Agricultural Replacement Measures for Emission Reductions (FARMER) Program provides incentive funding for agricultural harvesting equipment, heavy-duty trucks, agricultural pump engines, tractors, and other equipment used in agricultural operations. The FARMER Program Guidelines describe project categories available for funding in the FARMER Program and also provide CARB's Executive Officer [...]
On August 23rd, the California Air Resources Board (CARB) unveiled its plan to require the replacement of 12,000 Tier 0, 1, and 2 tractors by 2024. This requirement is contained in their portion of the measures to be contained in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the San Joaquin Valley to achieve attainment of the [...]
CCM recently signed onto a letter with 60 other Ag organizations pushing for the retention of Section12622 of the Farm Bill which requires the Secretary of Ag to fully enforce the existing Buy America requirements applicable to domestic food assistance programs. Unfortunately, this Buy America provision has been largely unenforced by USDA over the last [...]
CCM attended the California Department of Pesticide Regulation’s (DPR) hearing regarding the proposed DPR Regulation No. 18-001 related to Ground Water Protection Areas (GWPA). A GWPA is a one-square-mile section of land that is sensitive to the movement of pesticides. GWPAs can be established if any of the following are true: previous detections of pesticides [...]
In May of 2018, Bruce Babcock released a new study showing the economic impact of the California citrus industry. Babcock has now released another study showing the impact of regulations on production costs and competitiveness of the California citrus industry. The study focuses on costs the industry is set to face over the next few [...]
This past week the California Air Resources Board (CARB) released their portion of the measures to be contained in the State Implementation Plan (SIP) for the San Joaquin Valley to achieve attainment of the National Ambient Air Quality Standard for PM2.5. Two of these measures include tractors and harvesters. One of the measures, named the [...]
Nope, just water, trade, Farm Bill, and guest worker legislation attracted CCM’s attention this week in Washington, D.C. as CCM President Joel Nelsen and CCM Executive Vice President Casey Creamer made the rounds on Capitol Hill. There were side visits to FDA and USDA about reducing food safety costs and burdens on a low-risk commodity [...]
The Supreme court ruled in a 5-4 decision last Thursday in support of Janus against the American Federation of State, County and Municipal Employees (AFSME). The decision is one of the most significant blows to public sector unions and could lead to significant changes in California. At issue in the case was whether a public-sector [...]
Bill would require 100% Renewable Energy by 2045 Senator Kevin De Leon has resurrected an effort to drastically accelerate the state’s renewable energy standards mandate. His bill, SB 100, passed out of the Senate in the last legislative session but failed to move in the Assembly as political capital was spent on other legislative priorities [...]