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University of California created a searchable database of orchard and vineyard growers experienced in cover crops, and field visit opportunities are available in February.
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Multiple organizations have teamed up to introduce LandFlex — a program that reduces groundwater demand by contracting with farmers to rotationally and temporarily fallow ground in areas deeply dependent on groundwater for domestic well supplies.
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Jamie Johansson, California Farm Bureau president, insists California’s agricultural producers can do more than just survive — if only state policymakers reject their prevailing mindset and embrace one that is geared toward abundance.
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Costs are high, water is scarce, and prices to growers are low. With the economics of tree crops the toughest they've been in decades, is there a light at the end of the tunnel?
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Farmers from California's Central Valley received zero federal water deliveries, and severely reduced state allocations. Now hit with groundwater pumping fines, farmers took to the Capitol to protest.
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Both Jessica Salmer and José Cabrera have been assigned to regions of California and Arizona.
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Proposed amendments include eliminating mandatory inspection and certification of inshell and shelled, a new mechanism for collecting handler assessments, and others.
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The water scarcity has created momentum for new voluntary funding programs for growers facing the difficult decision of taking land out of production.
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