Items Tagged with 'evapotranspiration demand for crops'

The state is preparing for a warm winter, a worse drought and a chance of biblical floods—offering little reliability for farmers eyeing the next planting season.

After years of drought and extreme heat, the environment is thirsty and sponging up moisture—creating a new adversary in California’s water wars.

San Joaquin Valley crops need an additional one million acre-feet of water to stay cool in the heat, according to an upcoming study.