…immediate needs of those facing critical water shortages.” Wenger noted that the House of Representatives passed a bill last week authored by Central Valley congressional members, and led by Rep….
Statement of Westlands Water District on California Emergency Drought Relief Act of 2014
…reductions resulting from these extraordinary dry conditions have been exacerbated by the implementation in prior years of regulations imposed under federal law on the operations of the federal Central Valley…
Monteiro Lakeside Dairy – Innovation in Progress
…family, which now operates three dairies within a few miles of each other. Lakeside is the largest of the three. Located in the southern portion of California’s Central Valley, it…
Retail Consignees for USDA FSIS Recall of Rancho Feeding Corporation Meat Products
…Brown’s Valley Market 3263 Browns Valley Rd. Napa CA La Morenita 2436 Jefferson Napa CA Vallergas Market 2139 1st St. Napa CA Apple Market 155 San Marin Dr. Novato CA…
President Obama Plans Visit to Fresno to Discuss Drought
…talk about the drought. This is the president’s first time in Fresno, and only his second time in the Central California area since he was first elected President in 2008….
CalASFMRA Enters 2014 with New Logo, New Officers and New Direction
…California and Nevada. Nat DiBuduo, AFM, President of Allied Grape Growers in Fresno, was elected President of the professional organization. A native of the San Joaquin Valley, Nat has been…
California’s Water Shortage Could Idle Hundreds of Thousands of Crop Acres
…group of farmers – who get water from the federally operated Central Valley Project – are also bracing for sharp cutbacks. California Farm Bureau President Paul Wenger says the state’s…
House of Representatives Passes California Water Bill
…the bipartisan Bay-Delta Accord. It also reforms onerous federal laws – such as the Central Valley Project Improvement Act and the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act – that have…
FID Facilitates Emergency Banking To Provide Dry-Year Water For Small Valley Cities, Towns
…communities’ principal Central Valley Project supply source may largely dry up. FID was asked recently by U.S. Bureau of Reclamation officials to bank a small amount of CVP water –…
CFBF: Water Crisis Will Lead to Severe Problems
…will not deliver water to its customers. The federal Central Valley Project — the largest single supplier of agricultural irrigation water in the state — is expected to do the…
Breaking News: Unprecedented Zero Water Allocation for CA
…25 million Californians and about 750,000 acres of irrigated farmland. In addition, deliveries to agricultural districts with long-standing water rights in the Sacramento Valley may be cut 50 percent –…
Emergency Water Legislation Scheduled for House Consideration
…Valadao stated, “Republican Leadership understands just how important this issue is to our constituents in the Central Valley. The California Delegation has the support of our colleagues in the House…
DWR Drops State Water Project Allocation to Zero, Seeks to Preserve Remaining Supplies
…(55 percent of its historical average for the date). Shasta Lake north of Redding, California’s and the federal Central Valley Project’s (CVP) largest reservoir, is at 36 percent of its…
California GOP Reps Unite on Water Bill
…laws – such as the Central Valley Project Improvement Act and the San Joaquin River Restoration Settlement Act – that have severely curtailed water deliveries and resulted in hundreds of…