Good News about Water Usage and Cover Crops in California

Cover Crops - Community Alliance with Family Farmers

Soil carbon can also be greatly increased by cover cropping (23)(21)(1), with increases in soil organic carbon in vineyards by 40-50% (20). In California and ...

Growers Attest to the Benefits of Cover Crops

Rishwain is a more recent convert, having planted his first cover crop two winters ago on about half of his 150-acre orchard. The crop performed so well that ...

Managing Water and Farmland Transitions in the San Joaquin Valley

Lands receiving little to no surface water are more reliant on groundwater and more likely to experience pumping cutbacks (Figure 1b). And supply cutbacks are ...

Cover Cropping in the SGMA Era

around infiltration and soil water holding capacity as well as cover crop water use are ... impacts of cover crops on water usage, especially in California. One ...

These are the California crops that use the most water

The analysis ranked pasture first among California's top 10 most water-intensive crops, in some cases grouped by categories.

Cover Crops Offset Water Use with Improved Soil Moisture Retention

"Our findings suggest that cover crop water use is negligible in most water years and the long-term benefits can help GSAs meet their management ...

Water Use Limitations of Cover Crops in Dryland Cropping | CSANR

meta-analyses (2022), using cover crops in climates with significant rainfall during the cropping season had positive effects on crop yield. The ...

Historic Win for Farmers, Cover Crops, Soil & Ground Water ...

Reflections & video from the Central Coast Water Board adoption hearing for Ag Order 4.0 April 14 & 15, 2021 where a group of cover crop ...

SJV WATER: Cover crops could enhance groundwater recharge

Cover crops could be an important tool in groundwater management but are being unintentionally disincentivized by groundwater sustainability ...

California's Central Valley Embraces Cover Crops | 2019-06-24

If widely adopted, these practices could reduce water use throughout the valley by millions of acre-feet per year. ... That's good news for ...

Cover Crops for Clean Water - Soil and Water Conservation Society

It is our hope that this proceedings will provide a base of information that can be used to improve water quality through soil and crop management strategies ...

Cover crops help the climate and environment, but most farmers say ...

And Lara Bryant, the group's deputy director of water and agriculture, notes that while the overall percentage of farmers planting cover crops ...

Cover Crops—Good for Crop Yields, Soil Health, and Bottom Lines

Wide adoption of cover crops also increases water quality ... Stay up to date on California's climate and agriculture news! Sign ...

How Regenerative Agriculture Can Mitigate Drought - NRDC

New research in California shows how farmers can plant winter cover crops without any significant difference in the total amount of water used ...

Best adapted cover crops for S.California

I'm just starting to experiment with cover crops in my gardens in coastal California. It does not freeze here, and many things grow whenever ...

California farmers could save a lot of water — but their profits would ...

The vast majority of CA specialty crops are grown with sub-surface drip and with SGMA coming online, regulation and optimization are the name of ...

AG ALERT: In praise of cover crops: Farmers tout their benefits

This year, less water was applied, just 36 gallons of water per vine compared the previous year's 156 gallons. No more water will be applied to ...

California's water conservation has been a bust so far. Will drought ...

Maybe the politicians can talk about what they're doing to reduce agricultural consumption instead of asking people to tear out their 500sqft ...

Research Begins Busting Myths around Cover Crops

Initial research findings demonstrate a potential slew of benefits to cover crops use ... The good news is that Almond Board-funded research will ...

10 Ways Farmers Are Saving Water - Foodwise

Like the use of cover crops, such practices help increase water absorption and reduce evaporation, erosion, and compaction. Date grower Flying ...