Articles by Tyler Ash

There’s a noisy battle over water rights going on in the Golden State. Late last month, a diverse group of over 1,000 Californians flooded the State Capitol to tell the State Water Resources Control Board that their updates to the Bay-Delta Plan just won’t hold water.

University of California researchers are on the path to discovering genes that assist in drought resistance in sorghum, which could potentially be applied to other important cereal crops like corn, wheat, rice and barley in the years to come.

Marijuana growers are learning that growing a legal crop of weed may be more difficult and costly than they thought.

An animal rights organization known as Friends of Animals launched a lawsuit against the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service last month, asking it to protect a small herd of wild horses in Montana under the Endangered Species Act. The ruling could have far-reaching consequences.

Growing pains are challenging the newly legal cannabis industry in California's Emerald Triangle.

The Southwestern United States is bracing for the daunting reality of more drought this year.

Some invasive species usually try and settle down, start a large family and stake a claim on some of California's endless buffet of agricultural crops, becoming the bane of farmers and researchers.

Rumors are circulating that a stampede of California dairy producers is heading toward greener pastures in other states. But why?