In the last farm bill, Congress required that producers enact certain minimal environmental standards if they farmed on highly erodible land or wetlands. These requirements are referred to as “conservation compliance,” and while not everyone has to implement practices on their land, everyone has to fill-out a certification form. Producers who want to receive the ...
By Michael C. Saqui of The Saqui Law Group, Roseville, CA In July 2014 we tackled the foundations of the Worker Center Movement. In short, “Worker Centers” are Union surrogates that have become a powerful weapon in organized labor’s arsenal. An excellent new book, New Forms of Worker Organization: The Syndicalist and Autonomist Restoration ...
By Theresa Dunham of Somach Simmons & Dunn Over the last dozen years or so, the state’s regional water quality control boards have ramped up regulations on irrigated agriculture and their discharges to surface and ground waters. Initially, growers were mainly tasked with implementing on-farm management practices for the protection of water quality and paying ...
The May 2015 edition of the WG&S Magazine is in the mail. Here’s a preview of some of the stories you will see: COVER STORY Ag Technology WG Announces Major Investment in Future PRESIDENT’S NOTES California’s Worst Drought Tests Gov. Brown