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Reporter with The Fresno Bee covering agriculture.

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Fig fanatic brings exotic fruit flavors to customers. ‘Part of Fresno’s history’ “Before you know it, I had about 100 fig varieties growing in pots around the house.”

Fig fanatic brings exotic fruit flavors to customers. ‘Part of Fresno’s history’

24.08.2025 04:06 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Almond farms battle Central California rodent surge. ‘An infinite sea of rats’ Roof rats have caused more than $300 million of damage to farms in Fresno, Merced, Kern and Kings counties.
07.08.2025 16:36 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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RFK Jr.’s support for raw milk falls short, says Fresno County dairy farmer Fresno County raw milk dairy farmer counts Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. as one of his customers.
22.07.2025 23:10 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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America’s Protein Obsession Is Transforming the Dairy Industry

America’s Protein Obsession Is Transforming the Dairy Industry www.nytimes.com/2025/07/16/b...

19.07.2025 00:44 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Cherry crops failing in Fresno, Tulare from heat. ‘This has never happened’ One west Fresno County farmer had little to no cherries to harvest because of last year’s brutal summer.

If you love cherries, you better move fast and buy them, they are in short supply.

13.05.2025 18:33 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Mexico Livestock Imports Suspended: Screwworm Threat USDA suspends livestock imports from Mexico to prevent New World Screwworm spread, protecting US animal health and food security.
13.05.2025 17:45 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Fresno must cut DEI language and help ICE or lose funding, federal officials say U.S. Secretary of Transportation Sean Duffy sent a letter to several San Joaquin Valley cities warning them about the potential loss of funding.
01.05.2025 23:39 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
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Border Patrol can’t arrest people without a warrant in Central Valley, judge says It’s a preliminary win for the United Farm Workers and ACLU lawsuit against the federal government after the January operation in Kern County.
30.04.2025 17:08 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Major pistachio plant sold in CA for only $25M amid Assemi farming collapse Tulare County’s Setton acquires rival Touchstone Pistachio. Court records show the Assemi’s owed $700 million.
24.04.2025 21:32 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Farm Bankruptcies on the Rise Again in 2025 - Farm Policy News 82 family farm bankruptcy cases have been filed over the first three months of 2025, nearly doubling the figure for the same period a year ago.
22.04.2025 23:22 — 👍 2    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Could undocumented farmworkers be legalized? Trump suggests it's possible Legalizing undocumented farmworkers? Trump suggests there's a way to do it for farmers who depend on them.
12.04.2025 15:18 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Florida's famous orange groves may soon disappear LAKE WALES (AP) — As Trevor Murphy pulls up to his dad’s 20-acre grove in one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States, he points to the cookie-cutter, one-story
08.04.2025 23:33 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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California farmers fear tariff trade war losses in billions, uneven bailouts Nut crops are grown in San Joaquin Valley communities of Fresno, Kern, Stanislaus, Merced and Madera counties.
02.04.2025 18:12 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Hello nutria? California’s least-welcome invasive swamp rodents arrive in Fresno | Opinion Opinion by Marek Warszawski: “Fresno County has become the new California hot spot for nutria.”
19.03.2025 16:39 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Federal funding cut for California farms program impacting farmers, food banks, schools “The truth is,” a Fresno County farmer said, “I am not sure we will be able to keep going.”
13.03.2025 16:14 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Bird flu-infected San Bernardino dairy cows may have concerning new mutation A new H5N1 bird flu mutation has appeared in a cluster of infected dairy cows. It's a genetic change that scientists say could not only make the virus more lethal, but increase its spread between mamm...

🚨🚨 Concerning genetic mutation found in #H5N1 #BirdFlu dairy cows -- likely 4 herds in San Bernardino County: www.latimes.com/environment/...

13.03.2025 00:04 — 👍 12    🔁 8    💬 1    📌 2
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California farmworkers feared ‘La Migra’ raids. Is Trump’s deportation crackdown ‘more vicious’? “In the ‘80s we had a lot of raids,” said a former United Farm Workers organizer. “They hit us very hard.”
10.03.2025 17:27 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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DOJ opens investigation into egg companies for price-fixing The probe comes as egg prices hit record highs.
10.03.2025 17:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Silent and deadly, barn owls become farmers’ best friends in California pest control Owls are efficient hunters, catching up to 70 pounds of rodents during breeding season.
04.03.2025 23:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Republicans squirm as Trump's tariffs come for their states The agriculture industry will take a major hit from the new 25 percent duties on Mexico and Canada that went into effect at midnight.
04.03.2025 23:11 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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NIH ban on renewing senior scientists adds to assaults on its in-house research Policy follows firings of tenure-track scientists and suspension of training programs

We’ve tried to shelter our minds but tonight we’re preparing for the genocide of Science.

Entire NIH departments will have no leaders.

World renowned Scientists kicked to the curb without cause, & grants will loose their lead investigators.

Is this what they want?
Chaos? Destruction?

28.02.2025 04:06 — 👍 12178    🔁 4274    💬 842    📌 295
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Florida has been blasted with stronger hurricanes than ever before. A prolific disease carried by insects continues to devastate orange groves. And, on top of all that, consumers are watching their sugar intake. It’s adding up to a disaster for Tropicana orange juice. cnn.it/4kkaRC6

27.02.2025 02:02 — 👍 204    🔁 44    💬 58    📌 12

We are now finding bird flu in deer mice and house mice in Washington State.

H5N1 is advancing along the evolutionary ladder—affecting birds, mammals, and humans. This is not speculation; it’s a timeline.

21.02.2025 01:28 — 👍 21124    🔁 7600    💬 573    📌 569
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Record losses of bees could trigger hive thefts in California’s almond country This time of year, millions of bees are needed to pollinate more than 1.5 million acres of almond trees.
12.02.2025 17:44 — 👍 4    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Avian flu explodes in Ohio More than 10 million birds have been affected in the past 45 days.

www.farmprogress.com/animal-healt...

11.02.2025 18:56 — 👍 5    🔁 3    💬 0    📌 0
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Bird flu variant found in Nevada cows shows signs of adaptation to mammals | CNN The newer variant of avian influenza that recently infected dairy cattle in Nevada has a genetic change that’s thought to help the virus copy itself in mammals — including humans — more easily, accord...

🚨🚨This is not great #H5N1 #BirdFlu www.cnn.com/2025/02/08/h...

09.02.2025 06:04 — 👍 29    🔁 9    💬 2    📌 1
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C.D.C. Posts, Then Deletes, Data on Bird Flu Spread Between Cats and People The data, which appeared fleetingly online on Wednesday, confirmed transmission in two households. Scientists called on the agency to release the full report.
07.02.2025 05:36 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Effect of California immigration crackdown on $2B citrus harvest? Here’s what experts say A United Farm Workers video on social media shows workers picking oranges as the harvest continues.

I saw this Fresno Bee article on the Fresno Bee app and thought you'd be interested.

Effect of California immigration crackdown on $2B citrus harvest? Here’s what experts say
www.fresnobee.com/news/local/a...

02.02.2025 17:23 — 👍 3    🔁 2    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump Officials Release Water in California That Experts Say Will Serve Little Use Local officials and experts said the water the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers began sending downstream on Friday could have been helpful to farmers later this year. President Trump, in an apparent refer...

www.nytimes.com/2025/01/31/u...

01.02.2025 12:27 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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Trump social media claim of using troops to force water flow is refuted by California President Trump heightened his battle with California over water policy by suggesting troops arrived in the state to turn on water pumps — which state officials quickly denied.

www.latimes.com/california/s...

28.01.2025 17:59 — 👍 0    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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