Re: The Nov. 26 piece by ProPublica “Measuring the Legacy of Water Use” and the accompanying table with “Top 20 water users” in the California Imperial Valley, which contrasted water “used to grow hay ...
With chronic water shortages afflicting the Colorado River, discussions about how to cut usage have increasingly focused on a thirsty crop that consumes an especially large share of the river’s water: ...
NEWTON, Utah — A new study suggests some deep cuts need to be made in alfalfa and hay production in Utah to help bring the Great Salt Lake back to a sustainable level. The study, published Tuesday ...
WENDEN, Arizona (AP) — A blanket of bright-green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock’s family has ...
How does climate change affect where and how we live? The energy used to operate buildings results in more than a fourth of global carbon dioxide pollution. And climate change threatens communities ...
Agriculture consumes the vast majority of water from the drought-reduced 1,450-mile-long river. Making cuts will test farmers’ dominance, setting up new fights about what savings they can achieve ...
With Colorado and the southwest looking at an increasingly hotter and drier future, researchers with Colorado State University in the Grand Valley are looking into how alternative hay crops respond to ...
In the 10 years High Plains Journal hosted Alfalfa U events across multiple states—Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and Nevada—those in attendance were never short on pertinent topics. From ...
Alfalfa weevils in Montana have developed insecticide resistance, and there are some indications that it could happen in western South Dakota as well.
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