Agriculture: environmental farming program.

Existing law, the Cannella Environmental Farming Act of 1995, requires the Department of Food and Agriculture to establish and oversee an environmental farming program to provide incentives to farmers whose practices promote the well-being of ecosystems, air quality, and wildlife and their habitat. The act states the intent of the Legislature, among other things, that environmental laws should be based on the best scientific evidence gathered from public and private sources and that the best scientific evidence should include the net environmental impact provided by agriculture. This bill would make a nonsubstantive change to these provisions.