Board member Gary Osmundson, sued along with the Oakdale Irrigation District, had a judge removed from the case after the judge sided against the district in a pretrial ruling. In other action related ...

ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. Some New Mexico lawmakers are warning that leaving farmland unplanted along one of North America’s longest rivers won’t be a long-term answer to ensuring Texas gets its share of the ...

The fallowing would mean fewer sales of seed, fertilizer, hauling services and labor, but could boost spending in areas such as purchase of vehicles and farm machinery, with some of the fallowing ...

Farmers who contracted to fallow some land this year will get their money even though no one bought the freed-up water, irrigation leaders said Tuesday. In other news, Oakdale Irrigation District ...

Hello, and welcome to another edition of Parched. I’m Jake Bittle, a reporter at Grist covering climate impacts and adaptation. As drought continues to wrack the U.S. West, farmers across the region ...

A sign in a fallowed grass field at the California Capitol in 2022 encouraged water conservation. (photo: Department of Water Resources) The Public Policy Institute of California is sparking new ...

All over the world, the rate at which humans consume fresh water is now approaching or surpassing the rate at which water sources are being naturally replenished, creating water shortages for people ...

Land left fallow is set to jump by a third this year as nearly half the arable growers in a Farmers Weekly survey said they might leave fields uncropped. Faced with waterlogged soils and wet weather, ...

Arable farm management company Velcourt is using fallowing to control troublesome blackgrass and brome, and stretch tight wheat-oilseed rape rotations. It has implemented a fallow year to create a ...

This is an archived article and the information in the article may be outdated. Please look at the time stamp on the story to see when it was last updated. ALBUQUERQUE, N.M. (AP) — Some New Mexico ...