A comprehensive summary of today’s judicial, legislative, and regulatory developments in agriculture and food. Email important additions HERE.

LEGISLATIVE: Includes California

CALIFORNIA

AB 1009 establishes the Farm to Community Food Hub Program, which requires a hub to serve as an aggregator and supply chain intermediary for local or regional farms or ranches in order to distribute food products form those farms or ranches to public institutions and nonprofit organizations. This Info here.

LEGISLATIVE: Includes California

CALIFORNIA

AB 1103 authorizes, upon the approval of a county board of supervisors or a county agricultural commissioner, to establish a county livestock pass program for the purpose of issuing identification documents granting any qualifying livestock producer or a managerial employee of the qualifying livestock producer, access to the qualifying livestock producer’s ranch property, or to the ranch property owned by another holder of a livestock pass with permission, during or following a flood, storm, fire, earthquake, or other disaster, as provided. This Info here.