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“2012 was a great year for our organization, especially when we received our first project in crop nutrients,” says Gabriele Ludwig, CURES board chair and associate director, Environmental Affairs for the Almond Board of California. “Hopefully, this is the first of more projects involving nutrients that take advantage of the outreach and applied research skills that CURES has gained over the last 15 years,” says Ludwig....More

In the middle of one of the worst ongoing droughts in Texas history, how can Tommy Henderson remain so optimistic about his dryland winter wheat crop? Because he’s got it covered....More

Texas and New Mexico have been squabbling over the water of the Rio Grande since 2008. Texas is charging New Mexico water officials with failure to control groundwater pumping in the Rio Grande River basin, preventing farmers and municipalities from receiving their allocated rights. Officials from the New Mexico Attorney General’s Office have responded by accusing Texas of what they term “water rustling.”...More

Indications are that the March through May period will see a continuation of the trend toward dry conditions with "probably below normal rainfall” from June through August....More

“Water is the key,” John Wilde, Miles, Texas, says. And he’s doing all he knows to make every drop count. Subsurface drip irrigation helps, as do reduced tillage and rotation; and subsoiling between the drip tape helps capture moisture. He uses furrow diking to reduce runoff, and also has CRP land where he installed wildlife vegetation strips. To reduce erosion, he added waterways and diversion terraces and seeded with native grasses....More

Tom Jenkins is developing tools to show New Mexico's farmers and ranchers how they can use one of our state's most plentiful resources, the sun, to access one of the most scarce, water....More

The California Department of Water Resources increased its water delivery estimate for calendar year 2013 from 30 to 40 percent of requested State Water Project water....More

In a surprise about-face, the EPA has withdrawn an order demanding that West Virginia poultry grower Lois Alt obtain a Clean Water Act discharge permit for stormwater runoff from her farmyard or face up to $37,500 per day in penalties....More

The UC Davis Olive Center and USDA-ARS have been awarded a grant to develop innovative approaches to wastewater management and beneficial reuse....More