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California winegrape growers worry proposed water-quality regulations for waste discharge requirements for vineyards are burdensome, costly and duplicate work by growers already using sustainability certification programs.

Winegrape growers in Mendocino and Sonoma counties say proposed water-quality regulations for waste discharge requirements for vineyards are burdensome.

Nitrate contamination of well water has been a decades-long problem in the San Joaquin and Salinas valleys — and now stormwater has flushed more fertilizer and manure into aquifers.

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For decades, high levels of nitrate have contaminated groundwater basins throughout the state. Now this year’s heavy rains may worsen this widespread...

On The Farm | We need to try and work together and manage our precious water resources to get through these years of drought. Farmers are up to the challenge,

Ag Order 4.0 News Reporter With California Ag Today, I’m Tim Hammerich. The Central Coast Regional Water Quality Control Board is close to finalizing the Irrigated Lands Regulatory Program known as Ag Order 4.0. Smith… “What theyve done in that ag order is theyve put limits on the amount of nitrogen that can be applied.” That’s Richard Smith, farm advisor in Monterey County. Smith… “But theres going to be limits and theyre going to ratchet down over a period of time....