Report Priorities for California’s Water By Jeffrey Mount, Ellen Hanak, Sarah Bardeen, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Nov 14, 2022 Nov 30, 2022 ... This pumping keeps cropland in production, but it also aggravates a longer-term challenge for many groundwater basins: For decades, ...
blog post How Are California’s Cities Managing the Drought? By Alvar Escriva-Bou, Annabelle Rosser, Ellen Hanak Oct 31, 2022 Oct 31, 2022 ... ... dried up thousands of drinking water wells in small communities, and led to fallowing of hundreds of thousands of acres of cropland.
Report Solar Energy and Groundwater in the San Joaquin Valley By Andrew Ayres, Annabelle Rosser, Ellen Hanak, Alvar Escriva-Bou ... Oct 25, 2022 Generally, siting solar on formerly irrigated croplands can pose less risk to species and habitat than on other, less disturbed lands. As agricultural lands ...
blog post Is SGMA Compatible with Farmland Preservation? By Annabelle Rosser Aug 15, 2022 Aug 15, 2022 ... The prospect of SGMA prompting at least half a million acres of cropland (>10%) in the Valley to come out of irrigation by the early 2040s ...
blog post Commentary: Drought Requires New Strategies for Managing Cropland By Andrew Ayres, Caitlin Peterson Aug 9, 2022 Aug 9, 2022 ... Commentary: Drought Requires New Strategies for Managing Cropland. Andrew Ayres and Caitlin Peterson · Subscribe to our blog →.
blog post Commentary: Can San Joaquin Valley Agriculture Survive with Less Irrigation? Here Are Ways To Do It By Caitlin Peterson Aug 5, 2022 Aug 5, 2022 ... Commentary: Drought Requires New Strategies for Managing Cropland. photo - Wheat Field Before Harvest. Report · July 2022 ...
blog post Video: Farmland in Transition—The San Joaquin Valley By Vicki Hsieh Aug 2, 2022 Aug 2, 2022 ... Hundreds of thousands of acres of irrigated farmland may come out of production in the San Joaquin Valley as the region brings its ...
blog post Commentary: San Joaquin Valley’s Next Big Air Pollution Threat—Blowing Dust from Fallowed Farmland By Andrew Ayres, Jaymin Kwon Jul 25, 2022 Jul 25, 2022 ... Commentary: Drought Requires New Strategies for Managing Cropland. photo - Rolling Green Hills of a Ranch Outside of Fresno, California.
Report Land Transitions and Dust in the San Joaquin Valley By Andrew Ayres, Jaymin Kwon, Joy Collins Jul 20, 2022 Jul 25, 2022 ... We consider three irrigated cropland types in the analysis: annual crops, almonds, and other orchard crops. Among tree crops, almonds have ...
Report Exploring the Potential for Water-Limited Agriculture in the San Joaquin Valley By Caitlin Peterson, Cameron Pittelkow, Mark Lundy Jul 20, 2022 SOURCES: Historical rainfall is from PRISM Gridded Climate Dataset (PRISM Climate Group 2014); irrigated cropland extent is from the California Department ...