California Ag Today

The California farming industry throughout the Central San Joaquin are stunned at the announced 5 percent water allocation from the Bureau of Reclamation

Rob Schrick, Bayer CropScience Horticulture Manager says growers have the most credible voice for agricualture

Laurie Greene reports on how the Western Growers Association is reaching out to Urban areas to ask them to urge water system operators at the Sacramento Delta to send water south to cities and farms instead of the ocean

California Assemblyman Jim Patterson says thousands of acre-feet of water is moving to the ocean instead of being pumped in San Luis Reservoir.

There are creative and cost effective ways for the dairy industry to get out of the rut that it's currently in.

Tom Van Nortwick is the owner and publisher of Agribusiness Publications based in Fresno, publishers of Agribusiness Dairyman Magazine. Van Nortwick explains how dairy producers can help dairy producers, in these times of low milk prices .

Sara Kroopf works with the Environmental Defense Fund's San Francisco office. Her expertise is agricultural economics, sustainable agricultural systems and corporate social responsibility. And she does this by building relationships with agricultural producers.

Aubrey Bettencourt's organization, California Water Alliance has written an initiative that will use $8 Billion from the High Speed Rail Bond funds and $2.7 Billion in previously authorized water bond funds to build storage for all of California. It is hoped that the initiative will be on the 2016 ballot.

Hear USDA Secretary Tom Vilsack on the importance of the Trans-Pacific Partnership and the boon it would have for California specialty crop growers!

Uri Shani is a professor at Hebrew University of Jerusalum. He is also the former spokesperson for the Israel Water Authority during the countries 6-year drought.