Posts By: Dave Puglia

Farm Service Agency Offices Open for Additional Services during Shutdown

All Farm Service Agency (FSA) offices nationwide will soon reopen and offer a longer list of services to farmers and ranchers during the lapse in federal funding. The announcement was made today by U.S. Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue in a U.S. Department of Agriculture press release. Beginning Thursday, January 24th, FSA offices will be ...

Implementing California’s Groundwater Management Law in a Silo

Across California, landowners, water managers and local government officials are struggling to develop sweeping plans to bring more than 100 groundwater basins and sub-basins into compliance with the most dramatic change to the state’s water laws in over a century. In the few short years since the passage of the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA), ...