BOARD INFO PACKET
Upcoming State Board of Food and Agriculture Meeting:
June 5, 2018
Meeting Agenda: (Pending)
Board Meeting: 10:00 a.m. to 3:00 p.m.
Location:
California Department of Food and Agriculture
1220 N Street – Main Auditorium
Sacramento, CA 95814
The next California State Board of Food and Agriculture meeting is scheduled for
July 31 & August 1, 2018, 2018 – Location: TBD
2018 MEETING DATES
MINUTES
AGENDA TOPICS
International Trade:
- California Agriculture Export Statistics (UC Ag Issues Center)
- CDFA Planting Seeds – China’s retaliatory tariffs could have a negative impact on California’s s farmers and ranchers
- UC Agricultural Issues Center – “The Impact the trade and tariffs dispute between US and China is having on American farmers”
- U.S. Department of Agriculture – China Imposes Additional Tariffs on Selected U.S. Origin Products
- Western Farm Press – Experts fear long-term impacts from China tariffs
- AFBF – Farm Bureau to Congress: Tariffs impact on U.S. Agriculture must be considered
Climate Change:
- Global Climate Action Summit
- The Center for Climate & Security
- CNN: Climate change could leave Californians with ‘weather whiplash’
OTHER ISSUES
PAST BOARD PRESENTATIONS
TRAVEL FORMS
BAGLEY-KEENE OPEN MEETING ACT 2004
