Despite the various steps lawmakers have taken in recent years to get more water to the Great Salt Lake, researchers say ...

The Great Salt Lake’s depletion, driven largely by agricultural water use, threatens biodiversity, the economy, and human ...

Getting paid to swap alfalfa for another plant could be a better option for farmers than being paid to fallow their fields, as is done under current water-saving programs, Cabot said. Fallowed ...

New research published in Agrosystems, Geosciences & Environment reveals the increased land use efficiency and environmental benefits in an alfalfa–almond intercropped ecosystem under a Mediterranean ...

also began digging irrigation canals to drain swamps and divert river water to pasture for grazing and fields of alfalfa for hay. As University of California-Irvine historian David Igler tells the ...

Reducing the amount of water used to irrigate livestock feed crops may be critical to revitalizing the dried-out Great Salt ...

“You can’t get the volume of water that you ... is when farmers leave their fields grazed or unmowed to encourage grass reseeding). Farmers could cut back on alfalfa for crops like winter ...