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Cities Want the Water, Farmers Get Dust

The deal: Colorado has a new answer for the old buy-and-dry routine, where cities and developers buy irrigation water and move it out of farm country. Starting next year, transferred Arkansas River Basin water cannot be used elsewhere until dried-up land is revegetated with native plants. Shocking concept: if you take the water, you may have to leave behind something besides dust. By the numbers: The damage is not theoretical. Pueblo County has lost 56% of its irrigated land

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Fire Goats Get Priced Out of the Pasture

Brush buffet: California has leaned on goat grazing to chew down wildfire fuel in places where machines are expensive, awkward or allergic to hillsides. The goats eat brush, reduce flashy fuels and look smug while doing it. But a wage-rule mess is threatening the herders who keep those mobile salad bars moving, and the math is starting to look like a payroll ambush. The wage jaw-drop: After a temporary fix expired July 1, goat herders no longer fit under the same alternative

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Glyphosate Tariff Fight Gets Sprayed Down

Chemical whiplash: Bayer’s Ruveon unit is backing away from petitions that sought antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese glyphosate imports, which means farmers can briefly close one input-cost panic tab. The petitions asked federal officials to investigate imports and potentially layer duties onto a product many growers still use like duct tape for weeds. The withdrawal followed farm group pushback. Sticker shock avoided: The original request landed at a delicate t

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Cities Want the Water, Farmers Get Dust

The deal: Colorado has a new answer for the old buy-and-dry routine, where cities and developers buy irrigation water and move it out of farm country. Starting next year, transferred Arkansas River Basin water cannot be used elsewhere until dried-up land is revegetated with native plants. Shocking concept: if you take the water, you may have to leave behind something besides dust. By the numbers: The damage is not theoretical. Pueblo County has lost 56% of its irrigated land

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Fire Goats Get Priced Out of the Pasture

Brush buffet: California has leaned on goat grazing to chew down wildfire fuel in places where machines are expensive, awkward or allergic to hillsides. The goats eat brush, reduce flashy fuels and look smug while doing it. But a wage-rule mess is threatening the herders who keep those mobile salad bars moving, and the math is starting to look like a payroll ambush. The wage jaw-drop: After a temporary fix expired July 1, goat herders no longer fit under the same alternative

Livestock

2 days ago

Glyphosate Tariff Fight Gets Sprayed Down

Chemical whiplash: Bayer’s Ruveon unit is backing away from petitions that sought antidumping and countervailing duties on Chinese glyphosate imports, which means farmers can briefly close one input-cost panic tab. The petitions asked federal officials to investigate imports and potentially layer duties onto a product many growers still use like duct tape for weeds. The withdrawal followed farm group pushback. Sticker shock avoided: The original request landed at a delicate t

Livestock

2 days ago

Cities Want the Water, Farmers Get Dust

The deal: Colorado has a new answer for the old buy-and-dry routine, where cities and developers buy irrigation water and move it out of farm country. Starting next year, transferred Arkansas River Basin water cannot be used elsewhere until dried-up land is revegetated with native plants. Shocking concept: if you take the water, you may have to leave behind something besides dust. By the numbers: The damage is not theoretical. Pueblo County has lost 56% of its irrigated land

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Colorado River Gets Too Close to the Bottom of the Glass

Reservoir reality: Lake Powell is flirting with critically low water levels, which is not the kind of flirting anyone in the Colorado River Basin requested. Recent coverage says the reservoir is nearing levels that put Glen Canyon Dam hydropower at risk, with the Washington Post warning that the system is again entering a serious water crisis. At this point, the river basin’s group chat is just lawyers, hydrologists and people asking whether snowpack has tried harder. The ag

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Clamshell Crack-Up: Packaging Rules Hit Produce

Plastic pickle: California’s sweeping packaging law is getting very real for agriculture, and the produce aisle is suddenly checking its calendar like it forgot an appointment. The State Board of Food and Agriculture is stepping into the SB 54 debateas growers warn the first deadlines could arrive before workable alternatives do. Nothing says “fresh strawberries” like policy panic in a clamshell. The clamshell problem: Strawberry shippers rely on PET clamshells for cooling, v

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Dairy Nitrate Order Could Milk California Farms Dry

Moo-d point: California dairy producers are staring down a proposed groundwater protection order that could make manure management feel less like nutrient planning and more like a legal escape room with lagoon samples. Dairy groups are urging regulators to simplify the proposed order, warning that overlapping directives, pond requirements and still-fuzzy compliance costs could accelerate closures in the Central Valley. The manure math: The draft dairy order focuses on reducin

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