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Shining Light on Farm & Food Policy for 20 Years.
Friday, January 10, 2025
The Imperial Irrigation District is getting another $7 million from the Interior Department to build what will be the largest reservoir in the district’s 113-year history.
The House is scheduled to take up a bipartisan bill today that’s aimed at fostering collaboration between USDA and the Energy Department on issues critical to agriculture.
Carlos Abrams-Rivera has been tapped as the next CEO of Kraft Heinz and Jeffrey Kightlinger has been hired as a consultant by the Imperial Irrigation District.
Dairy operations and cattle producers in the Southwest are bracing for potentially higher feed bills, depending on how farmers respond to a historic agreement among California, Nevada and Arizona that’s intended to slash agricultural water usage and preserve hydropower generation.
In this opinion piece, Stephen Benson a farmer and with Imperial Valley Water discusses the benefits if California's conservation strategies were implemented within the six other Colorado River Basin states.
Gina Dockstader has been appointed to serve on the California Farm Water Coalition and Mike Stephan has been elevated to vice president of sales and business development at Monterey Mushrooms.
The Pacific Institute is calling the approval of a Salton Sea management plan “a real turning point” on the issue, but local residents say they are frustrated with the action.
A three-judge panel has ruled that farmers do not have special privilege to water for irrigation use, handing a victory to the Imperial Irrigation District in a long-standing legal battle with farmer Michael Abatti.
