Based on below-average statewide snowpack, the Bureau of Reclamation recently announced reduced water allocations for nearly all Central Valley Project water contractors. Deliveries could change depending on precipitation received during the next few months, said Ernest Conant, Reclamation regional...
The California Department of Water Resources conducted the first Phillips Station snow survey of the season Dec. 30. The manual survey recorded 30.5 inches of snow depth and a snow water equivalent of 10.5 inches, which is 93% of...
• By Ching Lee •
Ideal planting conditions should have allowed rice farmers throughout the Sacramento Valley plenty of time to prepare and seed their fields this spring, But short supplies of a liquid fertilizer have slowed their progress, leaving...
Like people, some plants handle stress better than others.
Now, in a recent issue of Agronomy, a team of Agricultural Research Service (ARS) and university scientists report their identification of U.S. rice varieties with the right "genetic" stuff for coping...
• By Bruce Linquist •
In the past few weeks, we have been getting updates from someNorthern California irrigation districts that water allocations have been reduced in some areas. We have provided some information in past years that will still...
Despite storms that dumped several inches of snow on the Sierra Nevada over March, California's snowpack only remains slightly more than half of average. That's important because it supplies about 30% of California’s annual water needs as it melts...
Davis, California-based Arcadia Biosciences has found significant yield increases with three of its proprietary input traits stacked together, according to research results from the past two seasons.
In the trials at the International Center for Tropical Agriculture in Colombia, multiple...
The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation, which operates California's Central Valley Project, updated water allocations originally made Feb. 20.
Agricultural water service contractors north of the Sacramento-San Joaquin River Delta will now receive an allocation of 20 percent, according to a...
For the first time in four years, water is flowing from lakes near Austin, Texas, to rice producers west of Houston.
Water from the Highland Lakes is once again flowing down the Colorado River to the Texas Coastal Bend, bringing...
The California Department of Water Resources announced an initial 2016 water allocation of 10 percent for customers of the State Water Project.
The allocation could be increased or decreased, depending on precipitation received this winter. The Department of Water Resources,...
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