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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Thursday, October 03, 2024
Newsom has cast his vote on legislation aimed at leveling the playing field within groundwater conflicts and shaping the San Joaquin Valley’s post-SGMA future.
Multiple sessions discussing California’s water management took place over the first week of September, focusing attention on state regulators and pressure points faced by California agriculture.
One of the California’s top water regulators fielded questions recently over a slew of local agencies facing repercussions for their inadequate groundwater plans and for a patchwork of new fertilizer regulations hitting farmers across the state.
San Luis Obispo County has been restricting new groundwater wells in the Paso Robles subbasin for nearly a decade. Now county supervisors are hoping to tack on a carbon sequestration mandate.
Increasing food production without using additional water and land resources could be possible through further developments in irrigation and water engineer, plant breeding and gene editing, and innovative management of things like heat and sunlight.
State lawmakers concerned about domestic wells going dry are looking for policies to give more regulatory teeth to the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act.
The Department of Conservation (DOC) wants to hear from people about how to set up the $50 million Multibenefit Land Repurposing Program established by the legislature this year. The goal is to hear from stakeholders in the Central Valley about what uses they would like to see for acres removed from irrigated agricultural use.
