…$7.6 million to livestock producers through the cost-sharing Emergency Conservation Program. Invested $750,000 to reduce aquatic weeds clogging irrigation screens, pumps and canals in the Sacramento and San Joaquin River…
USDA/NRCS Video: Cover Crops and Water Infiltration of Soil
…Solano and Yolo Counties, California. From its micro-irrigation system suspended in the trees (emitters protected) to its on-site walnut processing plant fueled by biogas from the walnut hulls, Dixon Ridge…
Lady Gaga Joins California Water Conservation Effort
…users and suppliers, including prohibitions on outdoor irrigation more than two days per week, washing hardscapes, sidewalks and driveways with water and using hoses without shutoff nozzles to wash cars….
UC Davis Drought Study Assesses Current Losses and Potential Future Impacts
…come up dry in the future if it continues to treat those reserves like an unlimited savings account. The UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences study, released today at a…
USDA FSA Announces Online Hay and Grazing Acres Locator Tool
…contracts. For more information about Hay Net and other FSA services and programs, please contact your local FSA office. For local FSA Service Center contact information, please visit: http://offices.sc.egov.usda.gov/locator/app ….
Apply for State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program
…expertise to review the applications. Irrigation experts from the Cal Poly Irrigation Training and Research Center, the Center for Irrigation Technology at Fresno State and the University of California’s Cooperative…
Storage Only Won’t Help Water Crisis
…trying to get passed into law address added water storage in one way or another. Western Growers Association Executive Vice President Dave Puglia was on a panel at the Center…
USDA Continues Farm Bill Implementation with Provisions to Help Farmers Manage Risk
…to purchase different levels of coverage for a variety of irrigation practices, provide guidance on conservation compliance, implement protections for native sod and provide adjustments to historical yields following significant…
Recycled Water Leads Symposium
…Center for Produce Safety held a produce research symposium in Newport beach to create a discussion about applying research statistics to operational safety, however the water crisis led the discussion….
FID Extends Water Deliveries
…a full irrigation allotment during the month of July instead of the originally scheduled half allotment. The 2014 Irrigation Season started on June 1 and is currently scheduled to end…
Almond Board: Late Season Irrigation Vital
…Irrigation in Almonds The Almond Board continues to help growers through difficult times caused by the drought. As Associate Director of Agricultural Affairs, Bob Curtis explains, late season irrigation is…
CDFA Announces Available Funding for State Water Efficiency and Enhancement Program
Agricultural operators are encouraged to apply for funding of projects involving improved water savings and energy reductions in irrigation systems The California Department of Food and Agriculture (CDFA) is now…
NRCS Drought Assistance Averts Hazardous Wind Erosion in the Klamath Basin
…2013 and 2014 irrigation seasons was less than the amount available in 2001, when most irrigation was curtailed. The Klamath Project was able to provide full season irrigation in 2013,…
Ongoing Water Crisis Takes Toll on Citrus
…reality that they will have access to none of their federal contract water—the first time this has happened since the Terra Bella Irrigation District was formed more than 60 years…