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Competing crops and water scarcity are reducing production of the popular dairy feed.

Alfalfa Can Provide Irrigation Flexibility Wednesday Jun 2nd, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. Over the past several years alfalfa production has really declined in California, replaced by other crops, especially tree crops. However, in dry years like this one, it has an advantage of being flexible, says UC Davis agricultural economist Dr. Dan Sumner. Sumner… “One of the positive things about alfalfa is that you can adjust how much you water it....

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Managing Walnut Production Lower Walnut prices will growers push out older orchards when they can. Dan Sumner is a distinguished professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics. And hes the director of the UC Agricultural Issue Center at UC Davis. “You know, it takes a couple of years. And of course, whether you pull out an orchard, we saw some of that during the drought as well, where you say, gee, that orchard is going to come out sometime in the next three o...

Developing New Almond Orchards on New Ground Tuesday Jan 19th, 2021 The big growth may slow down. Of course, growers will replace existing orchards with new trees. Dan Sumner is a distinguished professor in the department of agriculture and resource economics. And hes the director of the UC agricultural issues center at UC Davis. “Can we find more places that were willing to put almond trees, maybe a little bit, but I dont see the growth on the supply side at anything like what w...

Economics Of The Massive and Growing California Almond Industry Tuesday Dec 15th, 2020 Dan Sumner is a Distinguished professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, as well as the Director of the UC Agricultural Issues Center at UC Davis. “Of course, weve seen this coming for a decade. So, weve known that the bearings acreage was going to continue to go up because weve got the non-bearing acreage, and that’ always coming up,” Sumner said. “We ...

Economics Of The Massive and Growing California Almond Industry Tuesday Dec 15th, 2020 Dan Sumner is a Distinguished professor in the Department of Agricultural and Resource Economics at UC Davis, as well as the Director of the UC Agricultural Issues Center at UC Davis. “Of course, weve seen this coming for a decade. So, weve known that the bearings acreage was going to continue to go up because weve got the non-bearing acreage, and that’ always coming up,” Sumner said. “We ...