Semitropic Water Storage District in Kern County approved paying its share of the planning and permitting cost for the delta tunnel this...

Like a teenager in a bad relationship, U.S. tariffs on goods from Canada and Mexico are on-again, off-again, and then changing their...

On February 21, the California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) announced that it is their intention to schedule a referendum...

Red ink flooded Chicago this week. The dairy markets suffered a deluge of data and news that invigorated the bears. The trade war heated up.

U.S. milk production may have changed its tune. After slipping in the final months of 2024, output appears to have grown in January,

I attended two separate Kern Subbasin GSA board meetings this past week. The Kern folks are ready for their hearing. A tremendous amount...

On February 10, 2025, flows from the Sacramento River through the Delta were increasing following a series of storms in Northern California.

Love is in the air. And while folks across the country may be looking forward to preparing a special date night dinner for their...

California is in a situation right now where the northern part of the state (above Sacramento) is very wet, and the rest of the state...

It was a truly wild week on LaSalle Street. The dairy markets swung violently back and forth amid the on-again, off-again trade war.

This week may have been light on USDA reports, but there was no shortage of news for the dairy markets to digest. Developing stories...

On January 20, the White House released a Presidential Action memo on California water (see below). While the intent of the memo is...

To the dismay of hamburger consumers across the nation, dairy producers sent just 2.76 million cows to slaughter in 2024. That was...

It took more than two years, but the update of the Federal Milk Marketing Order (FMMO) formulas is going to be implemented on June 1, 2025.

The devastating fires in Los Angeles County, fairly or unfairly, have put a spotlight on California water policy. This attention has...

The cheese markets are searching for direction. In the rearview mirror, booming exports and a steep drop in U.S. cheese stocks argue...

The dairy markets are adjusting to the post-Christmas routine. Traders are back at their desks, and milk bottlers are running full throttle.

As the new year unfurls before us, dairy producers and other industry stakeholders are preparing for the opportunities and challenges...

On the Colorado River, the Imperial Irrigation District conducted a large temporary land fallowing program this past fall. To qualify...

Bah! Humbug. California dairy producers are likely expressing their frustration with more colorful – but less festive – epithets as the...