Pathways to climate-smart adaptation require urgent public-private support From the Environmental Defense Fund Deepening patterns of water scarcity and excess...
As foreigners buy up American agricultural land, lawmakers want to keep certain countries out. By Kevin Hardy, Stateline News Service Andy Gipson gets concerned even when American allies such as the Netherlands and Germany invest in large swaths of Mississippi’s...
By Mike Wade, Executive Director of the California Farm Water Coalition, posted at Ag Alert California’s San Joaquin Valley is one of the most productive farming regions on Earth. Blessed with deep, alluvial soils and one of the world’s five...
Field test finds carbon stored in soils even in dry climates By Amy Quinton, UC Davis Adding crushed volcanic rock to cropland could play a key role in removing carbon from the air. In a field study, scientists at the...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert After several multiyear droughts, those connected to water in California are looking at strategies to conserve irrigation supplies and produce crops using less water. To gain insight, farmers have partnered with the University of California...
By Christine Souza, California Farm Bureau Federation Farmers in counties along the California-Oregon border have reported millions of dollars of losses from a renewed torrent of grasshoppers and Mormon crickets feeding on rangeland and irrigated crops this season. “The problem...
