Why. They always leave out the “why”. Read any news article regarding subsidence, and it will tell you farmers pumped groundwater, and the land sunk. That’s true, but that is only the end of the story. Why do farmers pump the water under their land (which California law clearly states belongs to them) in the first place? Unfortunately, you’ll rarely
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Archives for Environmental
Ag Rises in the West
New Grassroots Super PAC is launched, gaining momentum.
The regulatory persecution of the hard-working men and women who grow the food we eat and fiber for the clothes we wear, has been ongoing by politicians, unelected bureaucrats, and the radical environmental community in California for decades.
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Are We Actually the Few Good Men?
What would it require for you to make a 180 degree turn against something you previously believed to be true? I'm talking about the kind of shift that rocks your world, the realization requires a significant lifestyle change, the kind of change that
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Crop Ag and Animal Ag Working Together
For years now there has been an argument against Animal Agriculture claiming that mankind could eat more efficiently if we took the animals out of the equation and we all ate plant based diets. While this may be a valid concept, it lacks a serious amount of practicality. Animal Agriculture has a very important and efficient role in feeding the
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Why Private Property Rights Matter to the Future of Food and Beef
Farms and ranches have the unique position of being between federally held wildlife areas and national parks and urban settlements. The history of property ownership has much to do with the values of our country and the...
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Spotlight on Ag – Saving the Planet one Dzine at a Time
There are those who see problems, and those who see solutions. Landfill Dzine has been steadily working to fashion change, and the journey has tested the team’s tenacity, and creative abilities. When husband and wife duo, Josh and Heather Carpenter survey their line of sleek, upcycled selections, they see every step of the challenging journey...
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Why Farm a Desert – Part 2
The whole farming the desert conversation was started by journalists far from the fields. To them it just doesn't make sense. So......they get on their keyboards and write stories about what we do here in the Central Valley of California. But what it really did was expose
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The Farmer, the Rancher, and the Forest
The Forest It took generations of environmental activism and political ineptness to create what we are witnessing this summer in the western United States. Incrementally, knowledgeable people who cared for, nourished and improved the forests where locked out. As a result, the forests became overgrown. Then came the perfect storm. Multiple years of drought. The fuel load became to large
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