…lower than previous records. In August 2015, the Department of Water Resources released a new NASA report showing land in the San Joaquin Valley sinking faster than ever before, nearly…
New Regulations for Groundwater Management
…August 2015, the Department of Water Resources released a new NASA report showing land in the San Joaquin Valley sinking faster than ever before, nearly two inches per month in…
Clean Water Crisis Threatens U.S.
…said they expected a water shortage that year, according to a federal watchdog report. The scarcity is only expected to get worse. A study last year by NASA asserted that…
Agri View: Peanut Butter
…peanut with him to the moon. Read about peanuts bringing good luck to NASA. Former President Bill Clinton says one of his favorite sandwiches is peanut butter and banana; also…
Climate Change a Good Thing for Wine?
…the study’s co-author, Benjamin Cook, a climate scientist with NASA’s Goddard Institute for Space Studies in New York City. “But since 1980, it’s been so warm because of climate change…
Bayer AgVocacy Forum: Be an #AgVocate
…CEO of The ODIN and former NASA bioscientist Charles Baron, co-founder and vice president of Farmers Business Network, a crowd-sourced program for data-driven agriculture AgVocacy Forum will be moderated by…
Agri View: Climate Change
…climate change. Learn more from Wikipedia. Learn more on climate change from EPA. Read more facts, articles and the current studies on climate change at NASA.gov. Image courtesy of NASA.gov….
Ag Seeks Silicon Valley’s Help to Satisfy World Food Demand
…as well as smaller manned aircrafts, to create high resolution images of their fields — technology similar to work that he used to do for NASA. By giving farmers a…
USDA Awards $3 Million for Robotics Research
…Health (NIH), National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), Department of Defense, and Department of Energy. The goal of the National Robotics Initiative (link is external) is to accelerate the development…
The Western View: An El Nino Winter
…like that poisonous yellow sea snake that came ashore last week. A climatologist for NASA’s Jet Propulsion Laboratory, by the name of Bill Patzert, told the LA Times that there’s…
Food and Agriculture Board to Discuss Land Subsidence, Groundwater Management
…Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA), finds land in parts of California’s San Joaquin Valley is sinking faster than ever — nearly two inches per month in some locations. Subsidence, or…
Drought Causing Valley Land to Sink
…California, prepared for DWR by researchers at the National Aeronautics and Space Administration’s (NASA’s) Jet Propulsion Laboratory, is available here: http://portal-dev.water.ca.gov/waterconditions/index.cfm From the Department of Water Resources – NASA Report…
USDA, Microsoft to Launch “Innovation Challenge” to Address Food Resiliency
…might combine data from the USDA and other government sources, such as the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA), the National Aeronautics and Space Administration (NASA) or the United States…
USDA and NASA Expand Efforts in Space and on Earth
…of this image furnished by NASA. Cathy Isom tells us how the USDA and NASA are using satellites to better monitor soil moisture and detect wildfires. USDA, NASA & Wildfires…