Farmers spread treated human waste on their crops. It’s full of forever chemicals. By Zoya Teirstein This story was originally published by Grist. Sign up for Grist’s weekly newsletter here. On Friday, the Environmental Protection Agency designated two types of...
Press release from the California Farm Water Coalition: The California Farm Water Coalition has released two new fact sheets that provide valuable insights into the amount of water required to produce the food Californians consume on a daily basis. The...
By Harrison Tasoff, UC Santa Barbara While Hollywood and Silicon Valley love the limelight, California is an agricultural powerhouse, too. Agricultural products sold in the Golden State totaled $59 billion in 2022. But rising temperatures, declining precipitation and decades of...
The report recommends policies, programs and tools for agricultural resilience. By Patty Guerra, UC Merced Water is among the most precious resources on the planet. Some areas don’t get enough; some get too much. And climate change is driving both...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Private companies have been snatching up more and more farmland and drilling deeper wells, according to new research. A newly published study looked at data from 2003-2017 and showed a drastic increase in limited liability...
