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California water board approves voluntary cutback program by growers

By Dan Whitcomb, GFM Network News May 25, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — California water regulators on Friday said they had approved a plan by some of the state’s most senior water rights holders to voluntary cut back water use by 25 per cent in exchange for assurances that they would not face further cuts during the growing season. So-called riparian growers in

Crops, Weather

Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

By GFM Network News May 16, 2015

Portland | Reuters –– The U.S. Bureau of Reclamation will cut the amount of federal irrigation water available to farmers along the Oregon-California border to half the annual norm as it grapples with a fourth year of regional drought, the agency said on Friday. Though the roughly 1,200 affected farms in the Klamath Basin had

Crops, Weather

California orders 25 per cent reduction in water usage

By GFM Network News, Reuters April 1, 2015

Reuters — California Governor Jerry Brown, acting in the face of a devastating multiyear drought, ordered the first statewide mandatory water restrictions on Wednesday, directing cities and communities to reduce usage by 25 per cent. The cutbacks, to be implemented by state and local water agencies, will affect consumers and businesses throughout the most populous

CoCoRaHS’ daily precipitation data for the U.S. for March 19, 2015.

Crops, Weather

No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

By Christine Stebbins, GFM Network News March 19, 2015

Chicago | Reuters — Drought pressures will increase in California and western areas of the U.S. this spring even as the dry season begins, the government’s Climate Prediction Center said Thursday. “Periods of record warmth in the West and not enough precipitation during the rainy season cut short drought relief in California this winter and

Crops, Weather

California tightens water regulations amid long drought

By GFM Network News, Reuters March 18, 2015

Sacramento | Reuters — Water regulators in California voted on Tuesday to outlaw watering the lawn within 48 hours of a rainstorm, the latest effort to spur Californians to conserve as the state enters its fourth year of drought. Facing a dramatic slowdown in voluntary conservation efforts by property owners, the state Water Resources Control

Crops, Weather

‘River of rain’ begins falling on drought-stricken California

By Dan Whitcomb, GFM Network News February 6, 2015

Los Angeles | Reuters — A so-called “atmospheric river of rain” began falling on northern California on Friday, bringing worries about flash floods, high winds and mudslides but offering little relief to a state left parched by several years of drought. The storm, also known as a “Pineapple Express” because it results from a ribbon

Livestock

Canada expands blocks on U.S. poultry, eggs

By GFM Network News, Manitoba Co-operator Staff January 28, 2015

Canada’s avian flu-related ban on imports of poultry, birds and eggs from Washington and Oregon has been expanded to include the same products from California and Idaho. The ban was expanded after outbreaks of avian flu in poultry in the past week in both states, including a backyard flock of chickens in Idaho infected with

Livestock

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

By GFM Network News, Theopolis Waters January 26, 2015

Chicago | Reuters –– A California turkey farm has been quarantined after confirmation of the first case of an outbreak of the highly pathogenic H5N8 avian influenza strain in the Pacific Northwest, and in a commercial flock, the U.S. government said. The news on Saturday came just weeks after China banned U.S. poultry after an

Crops, Weather

Major storm hits drought-stricken California

By Curtis Skinner, GFM Network News December 11, 2014

San Francisco | Reuters — A Pacific storm lashed drought-parched northern and central California on Thursday with heavy rain and high winds, knocking out power to tens of thousands of homes, disrupting flights, washing out roads and prompting school closures in the Bay Area. Nearly 240 departing and incoming commercial flights had been canceled at

Crops, Weather

More rain on the way for California, but drought may not be over

By GFM Network News, Reuters December 5, 2014

Sacramento | Reuters — This week’s California storms dumped up to 7.6 cm of rain on the parched state and more wet weather is on the way, but it is too soon to know whether there will be enough precipitation this winter to remedy three years of drought, forecasters said. Although the sun came out

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Tag Archives California

California water board approves voluntary cutback program by growers

Drought prompts cuts to farm irrigation in California, Oregon

California orders 25 per cent reduction in water usage

No relief in sight for U.S. West’s drought in spring outlook

California tightens water regulations amid long drought

‘River of rain’ begins falling on drought-stricken California

Canada expands blocks on U.S. poultry, eggs

California turkey farm quarantined after H5N8 detected

Major storm hits drought-stricken California

More rain on the way for California, but drought may not be over

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