Name: “Agricultural Equity” in California: Blueprint, Backdrop, and the Quiet Levers That Move Land
Uploaded: 2025-10-12T17:01:13+00:00
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Description: Yanasa TV News The headline vs. the paperwork In early September 2025, news outlets and posters on X blasted California for plotting “farmland redistribution.” The claim traces to an advisory body—the Agricultural Land Equity Task Force (CALETF)—created in the 2022 Budget Act (AB 179) and housed at the Strategic Growth Council (SGC). The task force’s

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“Agricultural Equity” in California: Blueprint, Backdrop, and the Quiet Levers That Move Land
ByYanasa TV News October 12, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News The headline vs. the paperwork In early September 2025, news outlets and posters on X blasted California for plotting “farmland redistribution.” The claim traces to an advisory body—the Agricultural Land Equity Task Force (CALETF)—created in the 2022 Budget Act (AB 179) and housed at the Strategic Growth Council (SGC). The task force’s…

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Maryland Farmers Push Back: Private Property Rights vs. the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project
ByYanasa TV News October 11, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News Landowners say the 70-mile line would serve Northern Virginia’s data-center boom while cutting a 150-foot corridor through working farms. A federal court has allowed developers of the Maryland Piedmont Reliability Project (MPRP) to enter hundreds of private properties in Baltimore, Carroll, and Frederick counties to conduct surveys—over many owners’ objections. In a…

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The Great Food Transformation: How Global Diet Control Threatens Food Freedom
ByYanasa TV News October 10, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News Why the EAT-Lancet Commission’s Vision for “Healthy, Sustainable, and Just” Food Systems Is a Dangerous Path Toward Technocratic Control When the EAT-Lancet Commission first unveiled its “Planetary Health Diet,” it was hailed by media outlets and institutions as a roadmap for feeding the world sustainably. Funded and endorsed by powerful philanthropic organizations such as…

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Report Outlines the Most Draconian Global Assault on Homeschooling in History. Governments Must Take Total Control—If They Allow It at All.
ByYanasa TV News October 9, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News UNESCO’s new “human rights” framework for homeschooling calls for state registration, inspections, and oversight—raising alarms among rural families. In the quiet farmlands, mountain hollows, and small towns of rural America, homeschooling is more than an educational choice. It is an expression of independence, a safeguard against ideological conformity, and a practical response…

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Backyard Chickens, Big Principles: Why Maine’s “Right to Food” Fight Matters Far Beyond One Coop
ByYanasa TV News October 8, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News On paper, Maine is the first state in America where the right to grow and raise your own food is written into the constitution. In practice, a Calais family says they can’t legally keep enough hens on their quarter-acre lot to feed their kids. That contradiction is now headed to court—and the…

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Raw Milk & PMAs after Triple Oaks: did the state blink—or regroup?
ByYanasa TV News October 4, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News Virginia’s sudden nonsuit against Triple Oaks looks far less like surrender than a tactical reset. The state stepped back before a courtroom fight, but law and precedent make it easy to refile—especially with Florida’s recent raw-milk illness cluster giving regulators fresh political cover. The Case of Triple Oaks Farm In Campbell County, VA, Triple…

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Paper Rights, Wet Reality: Washington’s Nooksack Adjudication Is Setting Up Small Farmers to Fail
ByYanasa TV News October 3, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News As 2026 looms, Washington’s Nooksack adjudication pushes small, aging farms through paperwork traps and penalty risks—while deep-pocketed interests lawyer up. Washington says the Nooksack (WRIA 1) water-rights adjudication will “bring certainty.” In practice, Whatcom County is marching tens of thousands of ordinary water users—farmers, rural homeowners, and small businesses—into court with too…

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Draining California’s Heartland: The Hidden Agenda Behind the Potter Valley Dam Removal
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Yanasa TV News California, long known as America’s agricultural powerhouse, is under siege from policies that threaten the very foundation of our food system. Governor Gavin Newsom has advanced measures that, whether by design or consequence, will strip farmland from private farmers, bankrupt small operations, and reallocate land for purposes ranging from identity-driven redistribution to…

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Texas Supreme Court’s “Produced Water” Ruling: What led up to it—and what it means on the ground for ranchers
ByYanasa TV News September 30, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News A first-of-its-kind ruling puts “produced water” in operators’ hands by default—reshaping leases, liability, and reuse prospects for Texas ranchers. The Texas Supreme Court has handed down a first-of-its-kind ruling on who owns “produced water,” the salty, often contaminated fluid that comes up with oil and gas. In Cactus Water Services, LLC v. COG…

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Ninth Circuit reaffirms Clean Water Act carve-out for irrigated agriculture — and why it matters on the ground
ByYanasa TV News September 29, 2025October 13, 2025

Yanasa TV News Ninth Circuit preserves irrigation-return-flow exemption A federal appeals court has upheld a cornerstone protection for Western agriculture, ruling that irrigation return flows remain exempt from federal Clean Water Act (CWA) permits so long as they don’t include additional point-source discharges unrelated to crop production. The decision preserves decades of practice for farms…

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