Duarte Nursery sold a widely planted type of pistachio tree that has posed serious problems for growers in the San Joaquin Valley. As many as 20,000 acres could be affected by a disorder that is known ...

Rep. John Duarte, a vulnerable House Republican, owns a family tree farm in California. His farm is facing a new lawsuit alleging that they deceptively sold the wrong kind of lemon tree. That's on top ...

John Duarte, a California nursery owner who was sued by the U.S. Army Corps of Engineers for plowing a wheat field without a Clean Water Act permit, has reached a $1.1 million settlement with the ...

An irrigation ditch flows through a commercial date farm on the north shore of the Salton Sea, near Mecca, California. More than 200 Republican members of Congress introduced legislation last week to ...

John Duarte, a fourth-generation California farmer and Farm Bureau member, has taken a stand against the federal government over whether farming is a violation of federal law, and he is making his ...

Duarte Nursery provided COVID-19 vaccines to hundreds of its workers Wednesday and is opening its Hughson quarters to nearby employers this week. Eva Martinez took a break from her grapevine grafting ...

UPDATE, 1:36 P.M.: A California farmer has agreed to pay $1.1 million in penalties for violating the Clean Water Act. A federal court last year found John Duarte with Duarte Nursery liable for ...

Even though President Trump issued a sweeping order to cut federal red tape earlier this year, a Northern California farmer is still facing a nearly $3 million fine for plowing his own land. In what ...

reporting from RED BLUFF, Calif. — John Duarte is a fourth-generation California farmer. Just outside Modesto, his family owns one of the biggest agricultural nurseries in the country. Duarte Nursery ...

With the crank of a Case IH Quadtrac, John Duarte unwittingly poked leviathan and unleashed the highest levels of government regulation on his farmland. The annals of bureaucratic overreach are packed ...