by Family Farm Alliance | Dec 31, 2020 | Monthly Briefings
Trump signs spending bill with Western water provisions 2020-12-Monthly-Briefing-DecemberDownload Days after suggesting he wouldn’t, President Trump on December 28 averted a government shutdown and signed a massive year-end spending and COVID-19 relief deal into...
by Family Farm Alliance | Aug 29, 2020 | Monthly Briefings
Western Heat Wave Triggers Wildfires and Power Outages Soaring temperatures, high winds and widespread lightning strikes have sparked wildfires that have burned more than 2 million acres, mostly in the western United States. The related, unusually high energy demands...
by Family Farm Alliance | Apr 30, 2020 | Monthly Briefings
Battling an Invisible Enemy Western irrigators respond to the COVID-19 pandemic Instead of harvesting a healthy crop, crews had to disc up heads of lettuce in fields at Harris Farms, near Coalinga (CALIFORNIA). Much of the crop was destined for restaurants, but many...
by Family Farm Alliance | Feb 28, 2020 | Monthly Briefings
Trump Water Subcabinet Members with Family Farm Alliance leadership in Reno. From L to R—Bill Northey (Undersecretary, Dep’t of Agriculture), Brenda Burman (Commissioner, Bureau of Reclamation), Ryan Fisher (Principal Deputy Assistant Secretary of the Army), Patrick...
by Family Farm Alliance | Dec 12, 2019 | Press Releases
(Las Vegas, Nevada) – A year-long effort to bring the perspectives of key agricultural water user interests into the current Colorado River Compact discussions culminated in today’s release of two special “Water Review” reports prepared by the...
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