Water Availability Taking a Toll
Monday May 17th, 2021
News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
Water is on top of everyone’s minds in California agriculture, especially this year. Here are a couple of water-related updates from throughout the state brought to you by the California Farm Bureau Federation.
Productive orchards are being removed in the Central Valley, as farmers cope with severe water shortages prompted by drought and water-system limitations. One Fresno County farmer says he’s pulling out almost 400 acres of almond trees. Federal and state water projects say they will provide little to no irrigation water to many agricultural customers, so farmers must calculate how much food they can grow with their limited supplies.
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Klamath Basin Farmers Look to Groundwater, Fallowing Land
Wednesday May 19th, 2021
News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich.
The Bureau of Reclamation announced it would be shutting down the Klamath Irrigation Project’s A canal which typically delivers water to farmers along the California/Oregon border. Family Farm Alliance Executive Director Dan Keppen says many farmers will pump groundwater if they can, or fallow land.
Keppen… “With no surface water out there, people are looking to use groundwater and the state of Oregon has, has issued emergency drought permits to allow people to pump groundwater. On the California side, the Tulelake Irrigation District has some wells and they re working out a program to sort of parse the water out down there. But it s not sustainable. I mean, you can only go to it in times of need and then allow it to replenish. And this ll be the second year in a row where we re hitting the groundwater pretty hard. And