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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

Policy

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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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

Farming

12 minutes ago

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

Farming

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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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Soy Oil Gets on the Train

All aboard: AGP says the first long-haul U.S. unit train of soybean oil has shipped from Nebraska, giving renewable fuel supply chains a new rail-sized flex. That is a lot of soy oil moving at once, which is either logistics innovation or the most Midwestern train set imaginable. The route: The train left AGP's David City processing facility and headed toward renewable diesel demand on the West Coast. Unit trains move a single commodity in bulk, which can reduce handling and

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Habitat Gets Un-Harmed

The word: The Trump administration finalized a rule narrowing how the Endangered Species Act treats "harm," specifically by removing language that allowed agencies to consider habitat modification as a form of taking an endangered species. The pitch: The Interior Department says rescinding the definition restores the law to its original text, improves clarity and reduces regulatory confusion. In Washington, "clarity" often means everyone immediately hires different lawyers. T

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Rural Health Gap Gets Grim

The gap: A new study is putting hard numbers behind something rural communities have felt for years: living farther from care, services and support is not just inconvenient. It can be deadly. The numbers: In the late 1990s, working-age rural adults were about 9% more likely to die from natural causes than urban adults. By 2019, that gap had widened to 43% more likely. That is not a statistical pothole. That is the county road washing out. The culprit: The researchers point to

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