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…

11 months 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…

11 months 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…

12 months 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…

12 months 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…

12 months ago