Record-breaking drought is reordering American agriculture.
prices are flirting with an all-time record. America’s drought will push them and others higher.
Water-hungry nuts like almonds and pistachios often bear the brunt of criticism, but Wade said California’s fresh fruit and vegetable industry will take an even bigger hit because nuts are higher-valued crops.JUSTIN SULLIVAN / GETTYthat the West’s current multiyear drought is “the most extensive and intense” in the 22-year history of the database.
The parched and cracked soil in an irrigation ditch next to a cornfield. Water pumped up from an underground well flows into a cistern, both on a farm in Fresno, California.“It’s turning into a have-and-have-not situation,” Covington said. “Farming is the ultimate risk-management business. We’re trying to stay away from transactions where we believe a farmer doesn’t have a sustainable water plan.”
Because of the drought and the uncertainty of water availability, farmer Joe Del Bosque, made the decision to sacrifice his asparagus crop so he could save his organic melons.One of the bedeviling aspects of the drought is how having access to water doesn’t necessarily mean it can be used. Some California communities, particularly lower-income and neighborhoods of color, are without clean water. An estimated 12,000 residents of the state’s Central Valley ran dry during the drought of 2012–16.
Water levels at this farm irrigation pond have reached a critical level due to the ongoing drought in the American West.The Ogallala aquifer, which nourishes the Great Plains from South Dakota to Texas, is getting pumped too much. Others are in California, the North China Plain, the Arabian Peninsula, northern India, Central Australia and Chile.
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