…federal Central Valley Project and the California State Water Project, the people who live and work in agricultural areas of the Valley are facing a disaster,” said Tom Birmingham, General…
Breaking News: Governor Makes Official Drought Declaration
…Project, which would streamline water transfers and exchanges between water users within the areas of these two major water projects. 6.The Department of Water Resources and the Water Board will…
BDCP Public Open House Meetings Begin This Week in Fresno and Bakersfield
…the State Water Project and federal Central Valley Project. The Draft BDCP also intends to create, protect, restore, and enhance habitat for native fish, wildlife, and plants within the Delta,…
EPA Awards more than $460,000 for environmental Projects along the U.S.-Mexico Border
…$461,368 in grants to fund seven environmental projects along the California and Arizona U.S-Mexico border. The projects include restoration of an important estuary, expansion of a municipal oil recycling program…
California Farms and Consumers in Jeopardy
…consumers throughout the state. Despite joint federal and state project facilities designed to provide a stable water supply for 25 million Californians and a third of California’s farmland, the management…
Snow Survey Today
…dry conditions. Back in November, it was estimated that farmers would get only five percent of the water they need from the State Water Project. In 2013, the allocation was…
State Board to Discuss Water Transfers and Drought Preparedness
…(DWR) and State Water Resources Control Board to discuss water transfers and drought preparedness. This meeting will be held on January 7th from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the…
Research on Cow’s Milk and Cancer Cells
Cow’s milk could someday be used in the treatment of human stomach cancer. A peptide derived from cow’s milk killed human stomach cancer cells in a major research project. Sabrina…
CDFA Accepting Concept Proposals
…projects to fill gaps in nitrogen management information for specific crops grown in the San Joaquin Valley, including corn, pima cotton, processing tomatoes, walnuts, and citrus. In addition, FREP is…
California Among States Getting Grants for Schools
…large scale. Today, the Kids’ Safe and Healthful Foods Project, a collaboration between The Pew Charitable Trusts and the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation, released a report, Serving Healthy School Meals:…
Drought Preparedness Workshop
…was one of several speakers. Workshop Topics included: Statewide Water Conditions and Preparing for a Dry 2014 State Water Project Supplies Groundwater Conditions Water Transfers for 2014 USDA Programs Pumping…
CIT Director Named National Irrigation ‘Person of the Year’
…and served as president of the American Society of Agronomy. Internationally, Zoldoske served as the project leader in establishing the Zimbabwe Irrigation Technology Centre and has represented the United States…
Almond Board: Final Day of Almond Conference
…a program highlighting a specially chosen project from one of the participants this year in the Almond Leadership Program. Sabrina Hill has more. Click to open or download audio report….
AgNeTVideo: Project Apis m.
Meg Ribotto of Project Apis m. discusses a special project to help honey bees….