DWR’s LandFlex Pilot Program has saved over 100,000 acre-feet of groundwater and protected 16,500 drinking water wells in California’s frontline...
SJV WATER: Land conversion money available for Tulare County farmers, others, to cut groundwater use
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water Growers hoping for a lifeline as groundwater pumping restrictions tighten learned how to apply for...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Land owners can now officially submit proposals to Madera County to convert their ag land to less water intensive uses under a new program adopted by the Board of Supervisors Tuesday using $10 million in...
California water regulators are cracking down on the overuse of groundwater by farmers. Enforcement could prompt them to idle thousands...
By Caleb Hampton, Ag Alert Proposed state legislation to modify California’s longstanding farmland conservation law could pave the way for...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water There was no shortage of interest in the $90 million in state funding made available through the new Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program, according to the first report released this month on the effort to transition...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water The sun was shining and blue skies reigned over the 57th World Ag Expo in...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water A unique land trust in southwestern Tulare County that aims to preserve farming by strategically...
By Lisa McEwen, SJV Water In less than 20 years’ time, the San Joaquin Valley could become a patchwork of vast swaths of vacant, weed-filled lands interspersed with a few single-crop mega farms that employ only a small fraction of...
By Tom Joyce, The Center Square U.S. Sen. Alex Padilla, D-California, introduced a bill that he hopes will bolster water...
From the Department of Conservation: California’s latest drought-flood cycle has shown the need for local and regional strategies to manage and...
By Jesse Vad, SJV Water Even as some San Joaquin Valley communities still have flood damage to fix, new drought preparedness funding has been awarded by the state. Millions of dollars are going to local groundwater agencies for farmland retirement...
The state could embrace “policy synergy” to deploy solar in areas transitioning out of agriculture, but the transmission lines must...
At the January meeting of the California Water Commission, Keali’i Bright, Assistant Director of the Department of Conservation’s Division of...
By Christine Souza, Ag Alert As local groundwater sustainability agencies bring groundwater basins into balance under the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, several hundred thousand acres of irrigated farmland in the San Joaquin Valley are anticipated to come out of production....