Recent Work

Farms face ruin as groundwater law takes its toll. Ag Alert.

California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act has left farmers in parts of the San Joaquin Valley facing bankruptcy as pumping restrictions limit their ability to irrigate their crops.

Kern County immigration sweep halts citrus harvest. Ag Alert.

Scores of farmworkers stayed home amid an immigration enforcement operation conducted in Kern County by U.S. Border Patrol, the largest operation of the kind in the California’s Central Valley in years.

Kaweah farms find balance under SGMA. Ag Alert.

Farmers and water managers in the Kaweah Subbasin in Tulare County have found creative solutions as San Joaquin Valley farms adapt to the new paradigm of groundwater regulation in California.