The Food and Drug Administration on Thursday announced a long-awaited final rule imposing requirements on farmers for ensuring that agricultural water doesn't contaminate produce with dangerous ...

Citrus trees on a farm in San Diego County. (Photo courtesy of the San Diego County Water Authority) As San Diego County continues to navigate the complex challenges of water affordability and supply ...

After more than a decade of discussion, the Food and Drug Administration has published a final rule for certain agricultural water used in the production of produce. The new rule was mandated by the ...

It’s a slippery fish — that final food safety rule for water used on crops before they’re harvested. The goal of the rule is threefold: to prevent people getting sick from foodborne pathogens, to ...

While the goal of 1 million acres was reached about a year later than hoped, it's a milestone that's been building for nearly 10 years. Joan Heim-Welch points to one of the many sections of her ...

While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising ...

University of California researchers from the USDA-funded Secure Water Future project recently found that increases in crop water demand explain half of the cumulative deficits of the agricultural ...

LUBBOCK, Texas (KCBD) - Some of the top minds in water sustainability came together at the Lubbock Memorial Civic Center this week. Texas Tech University’s Davis College of Agricultural Sciences & ...

Amid growing concerns for Iowa's water quality and rising nitrate levels in the Des Moines and Raccoon Rivers, Iowa Secretary of Agriculture Mike Naig says it "is a serious situation, but it’s not ...