NASA: Meat of the matter: Colorado River over-consumed NASA/JPL Colorado River April 30, 2024By Laura E.P. Rocchio The Colorado River has an accounting problem. More water is taken from the river than it...
STATELINE: Where did all the water go? New study explores water use in the Colorado River basin. Stateline Colorado River April 1, 2024By Kyle Dunphey, Stateline This story first appeared in the Utah News Dispatch. Read more Stateline coverage of how communities across the West...
COURTHOUSE NEWS: More than half of Colorado River’s water used for agriculture: Study Courthouse News Service Colorado River March 28, 2024And nearly two-thirds of that water goes toward crops that feed cattle. By Hillel Aron, Courthouse News The 1,450-mile-long Colorado...
AG ALERT COMMENTARY: Why alfalfa is ideal for California and the Southwest Ag Alert AgricultureColorado RiverCommentary August 2, 2023Commentary by Ayman Mostafa, Ph.D., a field crops and entomology specialist and director of the Urban Agriculture Production, Small-Scale and...
COMMENTARY: In defense of alfalfa: Important crop gets a bad rap Ag Alert AgricultureCommentary January 11, 2023By Mike Wade, California Farm Water Coalition California is the most populous state in the nation and the nation’s biggest...
AG ALERT: Costs spike, fields go fallow in Klamath Ag Alert Agriculture June 22, 2022By Kathy Coatney, Ag Alert The Klamath Basin has dealt with reduced water for decades, but this year is particularly...
AG ALERT: Alfalfa has ‘high flexibility’ for droughts and floods Ag Alert Agriculture November 24, 2021By Bob Johnson Alfalfa’s water resiliency may become even more important, with the changing climate expected to produce more extreme...
AG ALERT: Water saving for dairy farms starts with feed crops Ag Alert Agriculture October 27, 2021By Bob Johnson, Ag Alert As dairy farmers endure the worst drought in decades, University of California Cooperative Extension researchers...
AG ALERT: New groundwater recharge efforts aimed at alfalfa crop Ag Alert Agriculture October 23, 2021By Dennis Pollock, Ag Alert Efforts have been made by nut-crop growers to recharge their underground water supplies by capturing...
