Items Tagged with 'California agriculture'

As California swings from drought to floods, scientists fear the state is due for a megastorm on par with the great flood of 1862.

USDA's Natural Resources Conservation Service will fund three projects aimed at improving water quality in three watersheds in 2022.

DPR is taking public comment through February on pesticide-treated seeds to inform future regulatory actions.

CDFA Secretary Karen Ross recently returned from the COP26 climate conference in Glasglow, Scotland, where she talked about California’s climate-smart ag programs and met with counterparts from around the world. She spoke with Agri-Pulse about her impressions.

Fresno County is the top agricultural producer in the country for the third year in a row. The county's 2020 Crop and Livestock Report showed total agricultural production value in the county increased nearly 3% to $7.98 billion.

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.

California and other Western states stand to benefit from new investments in conservation practices and on-farm trials from NRCS.

With the new budget providing additional funding to some of California’s climate-smart ag programs, the Food and Ag board heard from experts about how to ensure the money strengthens and expands the impacts of funded projects.

The San Joaquin Valley Water Collaborative Action Program is bringing farmers to the table alongside environmental groups, drinking water advocates and local municipalities.

Parts of California received record-breaking rainfall over the past week, but “it’s too early to tell” how much impact that will have on the current drought, says UC Davis professor Jay Lund, co-director of the Center for Watershed Sciences.