…$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….
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…
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…
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…
Two CA Water Districts to Benefit from Grants
…Banking Program comes from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation and will allow the Fresno Irrigation District to develop a new 60-acre groundwater recharge basin as part of the District’s Southwest…
Funding Boost for Groundwater Banking Program
…Program. The funding, which comes from the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, will allow the Fresno Irrigation District (FID) to develop a new 60 acre groundwater recharge basin as part of…
Cotton Producers to Examine Montana Agricultural Operations
…pasta manufacturing at Pasta Montana LLC. On the 26th, the group will travel to Fairfield to 1) hear a presentation on the Greenfields Irrigation District; 2) tour Konen Farms for…
Questions Remain With Lower Limb Die-back
…almond trees. Taylor Hillman reports. Lower Limb Die-back Doll said some of those competing factors are over irrigation in the spring, shade out, possible pathogens and many others. Even though…