Bevan Wiig News Today

<strong>The long read:</strong> While the world becomes drier, profit and pollution are draining our resources. We have to change our approach

In this installment of the ‘Agronometrics In Charts’ series, Sarah Ilyas studies the state of the California strawberry season.

Government aid programs, set up to favor corporate farms, are out of reach to those who supply farmers markets and restaurants

Atmospheric rivers devastated acres of California's crops — meaning Americans will likely see higher prices for items like strawberries, lettuce, even frozen pizza this spring and summer.

Atmospheric rivers devastated acres of California's crops — meaning Americans will likely see higher prices for items like strawberries, lettuce, even frozen pizza this spring and summer.

Humboldt-based farmers the Foggy Bottoms Boys have been honored as the 2023 “Climate Smart Farmers of Year”, an annual recognition awarded by Community Alliance with Family Farmers (CAFF) to producers who exemplify practices that sequester carbon and promote a healthy ecosystem. 

Female farmers represent an increasing share of Golden State cultivators – and grow a wider variety of ‘specialty crops’ than done in traditional monoculture

For Manuel, an orchard worker in California, this should normally be a busy time of year. The Fresno County resident, who declined to give his last name

This was the little cyclone that could…and did.

In mid-August, as a largely uneventful tropical storm named Fausto was starting to wind down in the Pacific Ocean southwest of Baja California, a plume of moisture it spun off had metastasized into dry thunderstorms that were rolling across northern California, more than 700 miles away. Recently flattened by a record-setting heat wave, the region was blitzed by a 72-hour “siege” of nearly 11,000 lightning strikes from the storms. Hundreds of wildfires sparked to life. As the fires tore acro...