California Cities and Farms to Get 10% of Requested State Water Supplies When 2024 Starts December 5, 2023 California water agencies serving 27 million people will get 10% of the water they requested from state supplies to start...
Louisiana Citrus Farmers Seeing a Mass Influx of Salt Water October 3, 2023 By Sara Cline Commercial citrus growers have dwindled over the past few decades in south Louisiana, where farmers have had to battle hurricanes,...
Drought and Low Mississippi River Levels Pose Challenges for Midwest Farmers’ Crop Transportation September 18, 2023 By Scott McFetridge DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) – A long stretch of hot, dry weather has left the Mississippi River so low that...
U.S. Agency Covering Matching Costs Following New Mexico Fire October 21, 2022 The U.S. Department of Agriculture will waive cost-sharing requirements for New Mexico farmers and ranchers affected by the largest wildfire...
California Drought Hurting World’s Top Almond Producer August 19, 2021 By Terence Chea As temperatures recently reached triple digits, farmer Joe Del Bosque inspected the almonds in his parched orchard in California’s agriculture-rich...
Drought Indicators in Western States Flash Warnings of the ‘Big One’ June 24, 2021 By Brian K. Sullivan and Elizabeth Elkin Sarah Brunner opened the irrigation spigots on her farm in March, three months early. The rain should have still been...
Arizona Farmers Should Expect Less Water in 2022 April 5, 2021 Arizona officials are putting farmers in south-central Arizona on notice that the continuing drought means a “substantial cut” in deliveries...
Arkansas Farmers Still Optimistic Despite Ravaging from Floods August 4, 2017 While spring floods left many rice farmers with fewer acres of rice than they originally planned, they’re hopeful a rising...