agriculture

Strawberry Case Study: What if Farmers Had to Pay for Water?

Coral Davenport reported in the Pajaro Valley, meeting farmers, regulators and C.E.O.s and visiting oceanfront strawberry fields. Photographs by Nathan Weyland.[GIFT…

3 years ago

How America’s Diet Is Feeding the Groundwater Crisis

[NYT gift article] America’s striking dietary shift in recent decades, toward far more chicken and cheese, has not only contributed…

3 years ago

Organic farming — new role in the age of climate change

photo credit: Ruth Dusseault/Bay City News A robotic weeder that uses no herbicide, at the Organic Growers Summit in Monterey…

3 years ago

Study seeks to explore future of water sustainability for Yuma farming

Charles Sanchez, a co-principal investigator on the study, overlooks an irrigated field in Yuma, Arizona, on Dec. 12, 2019. Yuma…

3 years ago

Tensions are bubbling up at thirsty Arizona alfalfa farms as foreign firms exploit unregulated water

Photo: Without pumping regulations, rural Arizona has become attractive both for foreign and U.S. farms to produce water-intensive crops, such…

3 years ago