Legislation pending in Sacramento targets a common conundrum in rural parts of Kern County: farmers worrying there won’t be enough water to irrigate their crops at the same time developers are looking ...

“That's not to say that we haven't had a huge amount of fallowing, we did, we fallowed something like 500,000 acres last year and the whispers I'm hearing this year is it could be up to twice ...

More information: Adeyemi A. Adebiyi et al, Fallowed agricultural lands dominate anthropogenic dust sources in California, Communications Earth & Environment (2025). DOI: 10.1038/s43247-025-02306-0 ...

Fallowed farmland in the Central Valley could be repurposed for community benefits. “We're here today because the Central Valley has reached a fork in the road,” said Ann Hayden, who leads the ...

Walters: As California cracks down on groundwater, what about the fallowed farmland? State bill would make it easier for affected farmers to convert their fields for solar power generation ...

For example, on Aug. 16, The Bee published an article on fallowed farmland during the drought in which Dale Kasler of The Sacramento Bee reported that researchers said 78,780 acres of farmland ...

South Valley farmers fallowed an estimated 129,000 acres of land and incurred $294 million in direct costs due to last year's drought; a number that is on track to increase this year amid further ...

Agriculture in California faces an uncertain future as drought, wildfires and other climate extremes become more commonplace in the West. But a fledgling industry focused on growing and distilling ...

Fallowed farmland in the Central Valley could be repurposed for community benefits. Assemblymembers Robert Rivas of Hollister and Rudy Salas of Bakersfield introduced a bill Friday that would ...