Photo: Without pumping regulations, rural Arizona has become attractive both for foreign and U.S. farms to produce water-intensive crops, such...
EPA Restarts Assessment of Health Risks from Nitrate in Water
The agency will evaluate the hazards from agriculture’s primary water pollutant. Farming regions in northeastern Nebraska and elsewhere have some...
Crushed rock on farmland pulls carbon out of the air
Rock Dust 2- A spreader unloads crushed metabasalt on a fallowed corn field in the Central Valley. UC Davis researchers...
The Future of Farming is Uncertain. Here’s How We Save It.
At a recent event, we spoke with author Tom Philpott about the environmental and economic destruction brought by industrial farming...
Groundwater recharge: farm groups laud LandFlex grants
State awards $17 million for groundwater sustainability projects. Photo: Groundwater recharge projects are among those supported by California’s LandFlex program....