Low river water levels spark questions over Lake Diefenbaker capacity
Questions are now coming to the surface about Lake Diefenbaker's capacity to support farming irrigation, as well as the supply of drinking water for 60 per cent of the province.
#water #farming #environment #Canada #Drought #Irrigation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11171432/low-river-water-levels-questions-lake-diefenbaker-capacity/
Low river water levels spark questions over Lake Diefenbaker capacity
Questions are now coming to the surface about Lake Diefenbaker's capacity to support farming irrigation, as well as the supply of drinking water for 60 per cent of the province.
#water #farming #environment #Canada #Drought #Irrigation
https://globalnews.ca/news/11171432/low-river-water-levels-questions-lake-diefenbaker-capacity/
Geospatial Services / Gateway – USDA NRCS [open data]
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https://gdg.sc.egov.usda.gov/ <-- shared link to USDA NRCS Geospatial Data Gateway
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#GIS #spatial #mapping #portal #download #spatialdata #opendata #remotesensing #earthobservation #NRCS #ISDA #FSA #FarmServiceAgenct #RuralDevelopment #agriculture #fedservice #fedscience #farming #farmers #soil #SSURGO #environmental #naturalresources #NaturalResourcesConservationService #TIGER #precipitation #temperature #conservation #easement #LiDAR #elevation #names #geography #geology #governmentunits #boundaries #watershed #hydrology #water #WBD #HUC #topo #imagery #roads #transportation #soils #SSURGO #USA #US #landcover #landuse #NLCD
Op-ed: Why Most No-Till Agriculture Is Not Actually Regenerative – Civil Eats
https://civileats.com/2025/05/08/why-most-no-till-agriculture-is-not-actually-regenerative/
#farming #food #sustainability
Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/small-farms-trump-tariffs #Trumpadministration #BankruptcyandIVAs #Trumptariffs #Agriculture #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Farming #Tariffs #USnews #Food
Get rid of the focus on helping our planet and we'll starve. Pretty simple.
Drought conditions already hitting UK crop production, farmers say
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2025/may/07/drought-conditions-already-hitting-uk-crop-production-farmers-say
Trump tariffs to hit small farms in Maga heartlands hardest, analysis predicts https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/08/small-farms-trump-tariffs #Trumpadministration #BankruptcyandIVAs #Trumptariffs #Agriculture #DonaldTrump #USpolitics #Farming #Tariffs #USnews #Food
New reports tell us cattle and sheep farming can be sustainable – don’t believe them, it’s all bull
George Monbiot
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2025/may/07/cattle-sheep-farming-sustainable-food
Forest loss to farms and cities linked to declining drinking water quality https://phys.org/news/2025-05-forest-loss-farms-cities-linked.html
It’s time to shift our perspective: see them as individuals, not resources. 
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: wiltoska | weanimals (IG)
#cows #farming #animalrights #veganism #govegan
Dreaming Disability + Farming
A booklet/workbook about the intersections of disability and farming. Looking at how we can reimagine our relationship to our bodies and foodlands and resist abelism in agriculture.
Free to download.
https://architecturefemme.wordpress.com/solarpunk-curriculum-dreaming-disability/
finished reading My Father and Other Animals: How I Took on the Family Farm 
by Sam Vincent.
After an unsettled life of freelance writing, the author takes on the family farm. A memoir of his father and the land, an ode to regenerative agriculture, and an example of how to connect with Traditional Owners. The author is only two degrees of separation from me, so I found it easy to imagine myself in his shoes, going down a route that appeals but was not available.
#BookReview #Books #Bookstodon #Autobiography #Farming #RegenAg
@WildWoila @wildwoila@wyrms.de
Tposts up and wires hung for tomatos! 
#farming #Albuquerque @farming @abq
‘Food is medicine’: Mississippi grocery store revitalizes its majority-Black town with fresh produce https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/may/06/mississippi-fresh-food-groceries-access #BlackUSculture #Supermarkets #Mississippi #Farming #USnews #Food
Last year we did not get a walnut crop because the rains and cold continued for over a week longer than usual. Right now, the rains (not cold) are extending a week already into pollination season. Hopefully this isn't the new normal. If it is, then we have a beautiful looking 14 year old orchard of hundreds of trees, but no crop worth selling.
U.S. Geological Survey Colorado River Basin Science and Technology Collaboration Meetings on Drought (2021) - Synthesis of Findings
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https://pubs.usgs.gov/publication/cir1551 <-- shared publication
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USGS recent publication about the challenges and barriers land managers and scientists are working on to address the wicked problems of drought in the Colorado River Basin.
#water #hydrology #drought #extremeweather #fedscience #Colorado #ColoradoRiver #ColoradoRiverBasin #watershed #waterresources #watersupply #climatechange ##landmanagers #management #planning #overuse #magicwater #humanimpacts #ecosystems #agriculture #farming #USWest #strategy #GIS #spatial #mapping #waterscience #interdisciplinary #research #adapation #spatialanalysis #spatiotemporal #stakeholder #engagement #cost #economics #coordination #future @USFS @USFS
Greg Cocks 
Morten 
