Agriculture

The most valuable crops in San Diego County aren’t eligible for federal COVID-19 relief payments. Specialty growers are making the case they should be.

San Diego's tourist industry may suffer for a long time before air travel returns to normal.

Area farmers who grow cut flowers and ornamental plants have seen their sales decline, while other farmers who sell produce are taking less of a hit.

Democrats and President Trump make progress toward approving a new trade deal, a new round of tariffs is on hold, and a leadership change for Jack in the Box.

State regulators have said chlorpyrifos has been linked to health defects in children, including brain impairment, and to illnesses in others with compromised immune systems.

The Orange County-based company Orchid Ventures will build a cultivation facility in Calexico it says will soon produce more than 12,000 pounds of marijuana every month.

Last week’s ICE raids in Mississippi, which led to the arrest of 680 people, was described as "record setting" raids in terms of size and scope. Does this signal a shift away from the targeting of people with criminal records, as was the priority under the Obama administration, and back to the days of large workplace raids, which were popularized under the George W. Bush era?

Millions of bees are dying across the world because of a condition called, "colony collapse disorder." But an invention by an Australian father and son is helping small colonies of bees to survive, even thrive.

California has announced it will ban a pesticide heavily used on citrus and almonds because of its neurological effects on infants and children.

As more growers enter the cannabis cultivation business in California, businesses are getting ready for a changing market.