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Drought: Feds cut water to Central Valley farmers to zero
2014-02-22 15:00:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: Central Valley farmers took a crippling blow Friday when U.S. officials made the unprecedented announcement that they would get no irrigation water from the federal government this year because of the drought. But growers in a region with the country's most productive soil said the loss of one of their chief water supplies won't be their problem alone: Consumers will be hit hard in the form of higher prices at the produce market. California's unusually dry weather is forcing producers of fruits,...
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Can California Farmers Save Water and the Dying Salton Sea?
2014-02-18 20:31:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
National Geographic: Standing atop a rocky outcrop on the southeastern edge of the Salton Sea in southern California, Bruce Wilcox pointed to the wooden ruins of a boat dock that dates back to the 1960s, when the region was a marina that attracted sport fishermen and celebrities. On a sunny day last December, the dock sat hundreds of feet from the water, rendered obsolete by the shoreline's steady withdrawal. No boats were visible anywhere on the shimmering blue water. "The marina's been dry for the last five or six...
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Climate change forcing Vt. farmers to think ahead
2014-02-18 16:45:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Associated Press: While most Vermont farmers are gearing up for spring, many are also preparing for extreme weather events, especially flooding, farmers said during a meeting of the Northeast Organic Farming Association of Vermont. Changes in crop and farm practices were among the topics discussed at the meeting, which wrapped up Monday at the University of Vermont. Vermont Public Radio ((http://bit.ly/1hs3HtY) reports that UVM farming and climate change program Coordinator Joshua Faulkner said farmers need...
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Farmers Call for Policy Reform to Respect 2013 Agreements
2014-02-18 01:00:00| ThePigSite - Industry News
EU - In a high-level meeting with the Greek Presidency yesterday (17 February), Copa President Albert Jan Maat stressed that the EU must not go beyond the political deal on Common Agricultural Policy (CAP) reform made last Summer when drawing up detailed rules to implement the new CAP.
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Green loans help Kenya's small farmers and protect the environment
2014-02-17 08:16:00| Climate Ark Climate Change & Global Warming Newsfeed
Guardian: Borrowing money did not come naturally to James Gachacha Chira. The 56-year-old, who farms a smallholding in the shadow of Kenya's Aberdare mountains, has a conservative streak that many farmers would recognise. Tales of bankrupted smallholders who lost their land to bad loans are common here, as are woeful stories of farmers swindled by corrupt co-operatives. "I was afraid of borrowing money as I heard that farms are repossessed when you can't pay," the father of six admits. "So I never used...
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