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 ...

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 ...

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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 ...

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 ...

The split between the two farm groups implies that as groundwater is curtailed, there will be a scramble over the conversion of fallowed fields. Some farmers are already lining up deals with solar ...

“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 ...

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 ...