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California Farmers are Reeling From Loss of Powerful Congressional Allies

/in , , /by /Politicoby Camille Von Kaenel

California’s agricultural industry – the nation’s largest food producer — is fighting for its political future.

First came the death of Sen. Dianne Feinstein, a staunch Democratic ally who was unafraid of prioritizing farms over endangered fish in the state’s long-running water wars. Then House Republicans kicked Rep. Kevin McCarthy, a native of the Central Valley’s agricultural heartland, out of the speakership.

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Opinion: With Budget Surplus, Now is the Time to Fund Vital Water Projects

/in , , /by /Cal Mattersby Jim Nielsen and Andreas Borgeas

Over the past 40 years, California has not completed a major water storage project of statewide significance despite the state’s population nearly doubling.

Without substantial new investments and commitments to capture, store and move water throughout the state, whole communities will be subject to water scarcity and farmers will be unable to produce adequate food supplies, threatening food and national security.

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