By Jamie Johansson, California Farm Bureau Federation California Farm Bureau gathers for its 104th Annual Meeting in Monterey beginning this weekend. In a year with extraordinary challenges, California farmers and ranchers persevered—through historic drought, unprecedented water curtailments, supply-chain disruptions and...
By Tim Johnson, Ag Alert This third year of extreme drought is taking a devastating toll on agriculture in California. We see pictures of orchards being removed, dry canals and fields that should be a verdant green now a sunburned...
By Peter Hecht, Ag Alert As the Colorado River water crisis deepens amid withering drought in the West, Imperial Valley growers with historic rights to water from the river are making calculations on whether to farm or fallow. This month,...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Imperial Valley farmers who have senior water rights on the severely depleted Colorado River say emergency water delivery cuts ordered last week by the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation do not go far enough to achieve...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert As local groundwater sustainability agencies bring groundwater basins into balance under the Sustainable Groundwater Management...
By Norm Groot, executive director of the Monterey County Farm Bureau Farming in the Salinas Valley, the Salad Bowl of the World, is ever evolving and always progressive in its approach to conservation of resources. We pride ourselves here on...
