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Farmer Brent LaFollette and two friends built Premium Growers Hazelnuts to capture more of the value of their production.

Amy Wus "Farms to Incubators" is now available wherever books are sold.

The 2021 California winegrape crop continues to develop.

Is there more agriculture can be doing to recharge underground aquifers?

Incentives for Groundwater Recharge News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. This week we’ve been reporting on the potential for farmers to participate in groundwater recharge. UC Davis associate professor of integrated hydrologic sciences Helen Dahlke encourages growers to reach out to local Groundwater Sustainability Agencies, or GSA’s. Dahlke… “Most GSAs as mentioned are planning on doing more recharge because there is an interest in getting more wate...

Ag Data Revolution News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich. We often talk about data in this report and its importance to the future of farming. But data in itself is really not all that valuable. What’s valuable is when you can easily collect data in a consistent and standardized way, so that it can feed valuable tools. In that way, data is not the goal, but more of the fuel to make new technologies run effectively. Jordan Lambert says th...

Flooding Dormant Orchards for Groundwater Recharge Tuesday Jun 8th, 2021 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. One of California’s most precious resources is below our feet: the water stored in underground aquifers. In dry years like the one we are experiencing now, surface water becomes scarce, and we rely on these aquifers to make up some of the difference. Researchers like Helen Dahlke at UC Davis believe that recharging this groundwater is an important p...

Is automation the answer to farm labor challenges?

Water and harvest continue to be the headlines in California agriculture.

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