Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Colorado River water fills the furrows of a farm field in Blythe, Calif., where growers have been leaving some fields dry in ...

Re: The Nov. 26 piece by ProPublica “Measuring the Legacy of Water Use” and the accompanying table with “Top 20 water users” in the California Imperial Valley, which contrasted water “used to grow hay ...

NEWTON, Utah — A new study suggests some deep cuts need to be made in alfalfa and hay production in Utah to help bring the Great Salt Lake back to a sustainable level. The study, published Tuesday ...

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WENDEN, Arizona (AP) — A blanket of bright-green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun. Matthew Hancock’s family has ...

Agriculture consumes the vast majority of water from the drought-reduced 1,450-mile-long river. Making cuts will test farmers’ dominance, setting up new fights about what savings they can achieve ...

In the 10 years High Plains Journal hosted Alfalfa U events across multiple states—Kansas, Nebraska, South Dakota, Colorado, and Nevada—those in attendance were never short on pertinent topics. From ...

Mike Schuppe, along with his family, raises corn and wheat, as well as alfalfa, oats and millet, which are baled and sold as livestock feed. Schuppe Hay Farms LLC, is located in Logan County, Colorado ...

With Colorado and the southwest looking at an increasingly hotter and drier future, researchers with Colorado State University in the Grand Valley are looking into how alternative hay crops respond to ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Farmers could be paid not to make hay while the sun shines, per a new Imperial Irrigation District payment schedule and other ...

Colorado River water fills the furrows of a farm field in Blythe, Calif., where growers have been leaving some fields dry in exchange for cash payments to help conserve water. (Luis Sinco / Los ...