California Organic Conversion and USDA Terminates some DEI Awards
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**California’s goals to combat climate change requires converting 10% of its cropland to organic by 2030, 15% by 2038 and 20% by 2045, but organic acreage has trended down in recent years.
The California Department of Agriculture says of the state’s 24.2 million acres used to grow crops and raise livestock in 2022, some 1.8 million acres were certified organic, down from a high of nearly 2.2 million in 2020.
**Chinese Customs has approved 106 new U.S. pork and poultry plants to export eligible products to China produced on or after June 12.
Reuters reports the announcement comes after China and the U.S. reached an agreement last month in Geneva on a framework to get their trade talks back on track.
The newly approved facilities include 23 pork plants and 83 poultry plants, according to a Chinese Customs database.
**Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins announced the USDA will terminate more than 145 Diversity, Equity, and Inclusion focused awards, totaling up to $148.6 million in savings.
According to www.agrimarketing.com, Rollins says putting American Farmers First means cutting the millions of dollars wasted on woke DEI propaganda.
She adds, it will end the waste, fraud, and abuse that’s diverted resources from American farmers and restoring sanity and fiscal stewardship to the USDA.
