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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. And it's sort of like mowing your lawn. If you put less water on it, it doesn't grow as fast. So un...

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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 he's 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 or four years, because prices are down,” Sumner said. “I expect they'll be down, for a year or...

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 he's 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 don't see the growth on the supply side at anything like what we've had in the past, in percentage terms,” said Sumner. “That is to say you can't double the ...