Best Management Practices (BMP) Survey Deadline Extended Thru August 8 The DWR Sustainable Groundwater Management Program has developed a BMP Survey to help rank initial BMP development for the sustainable…
Effects of Agricultural Conservation
…farmers may need to further protect the soil, water and related resources in selected watersheds and to document on-farm conservation accomplishments. For example, a recent CEAP report for the Western…
Almond Board: Using All Techniques to Reduce Dust
…to Reduce Dust Robert Wilmott manages the Fresno State farm and says it’s important to keep several things in mind when it’s time to harvest. “So we run a water…
Agri View: Food Production
…our precious water supplies and a major polluter, as runoff from fertilizers and manure disrupts fragile lakes, rivers, and coastal ecosystems across the globe. Agriculture also accelerates the loss of…
Western View: Owens Valley Lessons
…of Los Angeles Aqueduct, which later became the LA Department of Water and Power. The Bureau obtained the water rights from the developers, then built a canal and shipped the…
Agri View: Hydroponic Farming
Everett Griner talks about hydroponic farming and how it may not be practical in today’s Agri View. Hydroponic Farming From: MIT University Hydroponics Introduction Humans require food, water, and living…
The California Kitchen: Brown Sugar Nectarine Tart Tatin
…Stick Butter 2 Cup Nectarines 1 Cup Brown Sugar 1 Medium Sheet of Puff Pastry 1 Egg 1 T Water To get the cooking directions, listen to today’s California Kitchen…
California Citrus Challenges: Water Tops HLB
…on groundwater because surface water stored behind dams has been unavailable. The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation allocates available surface water, but allocated none to California agriculture for 2014–15, Nelsen says….
UCCE Helps Hmong Farmers Weather Drought
Hmong farmers getting help from UC Cooperative Extension to weather the drought 22 percent had wells run dry; 51 percent reported decreased water flow UCCE advisor Ruth Dahlquist-Willard (right) demonstrates…
Summit Opens Eyes to Agriculture in Communities
…we can’t produce more land. These folks stepped right up and they use less water. These farmers are good caretakers of the land and sometimes that gets forgotten. Our folks…
Agri View: Lost Land
…Native Biodiversity.” By the late 1800s, forests and grazing lands in the American West had been denuded, watersheds rendered dysfunctional, wildlife populations decimated. If not for federal policies for public…
Almond Board: Almond Irrigation Improvement Continuum
…growers use water more efficiently, but also show the public just how efficient they are. The Almond Irrigation Improvement Continuum focuses on five areas in which growers can improve irrigation…
Lessons from Six California Soil Care Farmers
…Central Valley prove this rationale wrong, Mitchell said. The farm visits were sponsored by the UC Conservation Agriculture Systems Innovation Center (CASI), USDA’s Natural Resources Conservation Service and the California…
Western View: Kings Forest
…need protection and preservation. Some resources need to be managed on the regional level; look how water from snowstorms in Colorado are now used to grow people in Las Vegas…