John Duarte looks over pistachio clones at Duarte Nursery in Hughson, Calif., on Thursday, May, 7, 2015. Andy Alfaro [email protected] Duarte Nursery of Hughson stopped selling defective pistachio ...

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 ...

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 ...

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 ...

Are farmers protected by the agricultural practices exemption of the Clean Water Act? That is the centerpiece of a court hearing getting underway in California. John Duarte has been in the national ...

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 ...

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 ...

WASHINGTON, June 13, 2016 - Farming activities must be ongoing in order to avoid the full reach of the Clean Water Act, according to a federal judge’s decision. In a closely watched case out of ...

A California farmer is facing a $2.8M fine by state and federal regulators for planting wheat on his own land. John Duarte, owner of Duarte Nursery, said the government is retaliating against him for ...

Republican John Duarte, a farmer from Modesto, told The Bee on Monday that he thinks that he will win California’s 13th Congressional District. “I am honored to be able to go in and fight for the 13th ...