“You can’t just dare the board to come after you. You have to pay your fees, and you have to get into these programs.” –Patrick Pulupa, Executive Officer, Central Valley Regional Water Board In May 2018, the Central Valley Water...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert Hit with a third consecutive year of drought, farmers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley who grow trees, vines and row crops are making difficult decisions on what to farm and what...
By Chris Scheuring, California Farm Bureau Federation Wendell Berry famously said that eating is an agricultural act. That makes all of us into farmers, and nowhere is that more true than in water terms. For farming is irreducibly the process...
By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert When a rare heavy rain used to fall on Jim Chew’s Madera County farm, the water would just roll off his pistachio orchard, uncaptured as it drained down a slight slope. Then came the ground...
By Dennis Pollock It has become a well-worn cliché in the world of irrigation: “If you want to manage water, you have to measure water.” Bill Green knows the expression well, as both an agriculture specialist at the Center for...
