Modern Farmer

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

On a cold January morning, Wivholm drives the dirt roads between farms in Sheridan County, where he’s lived for all his 63 years, with practiced ease, pointing out different plots of land by who owns them. Not great for dry-land farming. Credit: Keely Larson, RTBC Once a year, the committee meets to assess new water rights.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

AUGUST 11, 2023

More than 100 members and NSAC staff from across the country gathered at the foothills of the Rockies to re-energize and strategize ahead of the upcoming Farm Bill reauthorization. On Tuesday evening, Representative Joe Neguse (D-CO-2) joined us at dinner at Ollin Farms (more on the farm tours below). As a pediatrician, Rep.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

Their lesser-known power lies in a network of dozens of corporations, most positioned as investment and seed-capital funds focusing on everything from STEM education to seed growth, aquaculture, and farming techniques. Some are, in their own right, vast enterprises.

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NASDA

JULY 2, 2024

4] 2 Waters and Water Rights § 19.04 (2019). [5] We look forward to working with the Council on this issue and to enhance groundwater management in the U.S. 1462, 1471 (2020). [2] 3] See Overview of Groundwater Regulation, Sea Grant Law Center, available at [link] (last visited July 1, 2024). [4] 5] Sharon B. Megdal et al.,

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ATTRA

OCTOBER 24, 2023

The remaining 50% should be space for air and water. Right: Figure 5: Composition of unhealthy soil where two-thirds or more of the soil is comprised of solid particles. This leaves very little space to allow water or air to seep in.

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Food Tank

OCTOBER 13, 2023

In India, farmers are rethinking small ditches called dobas to help use water more efficiently, and in California, some farmers are able to irrigate crops with treated wastewater. And plenty of inspiring efforts to conserve water are crossing national borders, too. Repairing our water resources will take a lot of work.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 4, 2024

On a dry, hot day in June, water manager Chris Ivers plunged his hand into San Luis Creek and extracted a tangled mat of weeds that had blocked icy snowmelt from reaching nearby farms. The free-flowing water is a welcome sight in southern Colorado, an agricultural region in the throes of a groundwater crisis.

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Civil Eats

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

They’ve been a crucial part of the conversation about the future of the river and the water it provides to the 38,900 farms that generate about $47 billion a year in economic impact. For example, in 2016, the Walton Family Foundation formed the Water Funder Initiative in collaboration with six other philanthropies.

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Civil Eats

AUGUST 23, 2023

Map credit: Hawaii Statewide GIS Program) The sugarcane and pineapple industries reigned for nearly two centuries , with monocropping farming methods made exceptionally profitable with indentured servitude. Meanwhile, local communities are engaged in an ongoing battle for water rights as the residents of Hawaii look toward rebuilding.

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Civil Eats

MAY 20, 2024

If your mushrooms are very dirty, wash them (quickly, to keep them from soaking up water) right before use. Nurse noted there can be a big difference in freshness and shelf life of what is available at a farmers’ market or farm stand vs. the grocery store.

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National Sustainable Agriculture Coalition

JANUARY 17, 2024

However, the publication also presents planned solutions to reduce emissions and transform toward increasingly robust farming systems. Despite the challenges ahead, substantial reason for optimism lies both in suggested routes to emissions reductions and adaptation of farming systems. from Chapter 22 of NCA5.

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Food Environment and Reporting Network

MAY 16, 2024

In the early 1900s, Los Angeles was a small city that was running out of water, and Payahuunadü , which means “the land of flowing water,” had lots of it. Renamed the Owens Valley by white settlers, the valley was a snow-capped patchwork of pear farms and cattle ranches. But by then, a new power player had entered the valley.

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Trimble Agriculture

MAY 1, 2023

To protect these waterways, Congress passed the Clean Water Act in 1972, giving the Environmental Protection Agency oversight in protecting the country’s bodies of water, including wetlands, underground aquifers, and diverted surface water. But with these safeguards came a cost.

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Daily Yonder

APRIL 18, 2023

If the water keeps running out,” wrote High Plains Public Radio reporter David Condos in an article , “some of the region’s farms and towns could vanish within a generation or two.” Farming in this region can’t just stop. One is to rethink the way water is used and land is managed. But it can be reimagined.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Instead, the Parker district has forged an estimated $880 million deal with ranchers in Colorado’s most agriculturally productive region to capture and store water from the South Platte River during rare periods when supply exceeds demand. But that system is imperiled if ranchers and cities continue to forge buy-and-dry deals, Frank said.

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Civil Eats

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Their stories on climate crisis solutions, including a surge in drought-resistant agave farming , flooding fields after heavy rains for groundwater restoration , and planting hedgerows for carbon sequestration and other environmental benefits, were named best environment reporting.

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Civil Eats

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” This has led land-strapped farmers to either drop out of farming or become tenant farmers, operating farms on rented land.

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Daily Yonder

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

Today, the aquifer supports 20% of the nation’s wheat, corn, cotton and cattle production and represents 30% of all water used for irrigation in the United States. Since the mid-20th century, when large-scale irrigation began, water levels in the stretches of the Ogallala underlying Kansas have dropped an average 28.2

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