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Industry Tells 9th Circ. No Cancer Warning For Glyphosate
Law360 (May 20, 2021, 9:50 PM EDT) Business groups and major farming interests backed an order blocking enforcement of California s rule requiring cancer labels on the herbicide glyphosate, which is found in the popular weedkiller Roundup, telling the Ninth Circuit the rule violates the First Amendment.
The U.S. Chamber of Commerce, California Farm Bureau Federation and others told the Ninth Circuit on Wednesday that it should uphold a lower court decision that blocked the enforcement of Proposition 65 warnings for glyphosate. The groups argue there isn t enough evidence to show that the chemical causes cancer and that the state s warning for glyphosate violates the First Amendment by imposing on.
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Water Availability Taking a Toll
Monday May 17th, 2021
News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
Water is on top of everyone’s minds in California agriculture, especially this year. Here are a couple of water-related updates from throughout the state brought to you by the California Farm Bureau Federation.
Productive orchards are being removed in the Central Valley, as farmers cope with severe water shortages prompted by drought and water-system limitations. One Fresno County farmer says he’s pulling out almost 400 acres of almond trees. Federal and state water projects say they will provide little to no irrigation water to many agricultural customers, so farmers must calculate how much food they can grow with their limited supplies.
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Related On an October night in 2019, Scott Newman stood on his Sonoma Valley farm and watched the smoke plumes from the Kinkade Fire over the mountains to his north. He texted a friend, the local fire chief, “It looks like we might be in the fire path.” Minutes later, Newman recalled, the chief replied, “Sadly, yes.” By the following day, the fire had reduced nearly everything on his 500-acre property to blackened rubble. Only a single barn remained unscathed.
Newman’s crop and fire insurance policies covered just about all the damages, including six homes, 14 structures, and vineyard and ranching equipment worth hundreds of thousands of dollars. Over the next year and a half, he built anew on the property that had been in his family for 50 years.