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Commentary: Secretary Vilsack, don’t invest in a broken system

By Greg Gunthorp. I own a small on-farm USDA inspected red meat and poultry slaughter and processing plant. Each year, we raise, process and market as much as a million […]

Good Day Sacramento news coverage of Meat Processing Expansion

Guest column: Resilience for farmworkers and farms key to Ventura County’s future

The warming climate is bad news for all of us. In Ventura County, however, few are as vulnerable to its dangers as farmers and farmworkers. The reason is pretty simple. […]

California Meat Processing Progress: Time for Change!

In another key accomplishment this year, ROC worked with UC Davis Food Systems Lab and a coalition of stakeholders, co-led by our ally CCOF, to produce this white paper related […]

We are transforming the food system: $1.3 billion in the CA budget!

It takes a movement to transform the food system and ours leaped forward this year. ROC and our AB 125 coalition partners worked closely with Assembly Ag Committee Chair, Robert […]

Progress, Never Perfection: Preliminary Results from Our California Budget Work

Wow, our fingers are crossed for even more good news. There are a huge number of unknowns still related to our sustainable agriculture requests. There is more clarity around healthy […]

S3 – Ep#3 – Unprecedented funding for local, just and regenerative food and farms

S3 – Ep#2 – Imhoff Archives with Temple Grandin, animal behaviorist

S3 -Ep#1 -Season 3 Opener with Tom Philpott, author of “Perilous Harvest”

A Resilient and Equitable Food and Farming System in California

Today, Assemblymember Robert Rivas (D- Hollister) made an exciting announcement about a bill he just introduced called the Equitable Economic Recovery, Healthy Food Access, Climate Resilient Farms and Worker Protection […]