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...
In this issue: Implications of the Drought for California Agriculture Climatological Context for California’s Ongoing Drought, by John Abatzoglou California...
By Kevin Hecteman, Ag Alert As California weathers another drought, tools that can help farmers and ranchers maximize the water they do get are being sharpened. The newest effort to measure such water use was launched last week by a...
By Bob Johnson, Ag Alert One day in early October, a group of University of California, Merced, students went to the campus Smart Farm, augurs in hand, to explore the soil for the best spots to locate moisture sensors. They...
