California farms fail as land values plunge amid groundwater crisis With aquifers nationwide in dangerous decline, an estimated 500,000 acres of farmland may be taken out of cultivation by 2040 ...

The farm barons of Tulare Lake Basin want to continue pumping groundwater at volumes collapsing the San Joaquin Valley. That puts the region at greater risk of damaging floods — and in greater ...

Decades of overpumping from agricultural wells have left groundwater severely depleted in much of the Central Valley, leading to subsidence, or the sinking of the ground, which has caused damage ...

UC Riverside study has found that subsidence from excessive groundwater pumping in California's Central Valley reduced home ...

"We are seeing groundwater tables in some places drop very significantly, so it does become concerning," says Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO Ryan Jacobsen. Most of the wells that measured at an all ...

Land sinking linked to excessive groundwater pumping in California's Central Valley is leading to millions in home value losses.

A Saudi Arabian farm previously permitted to pump unlimited amounts of groundwater to grow alfalfa for dairy cows overseas has stopped irrigating its crops on state land in Arizona’s Butler ...

A consortium of agricultural and water groups known as the Water Blueprint for the San Joaquin Valley is considering what to do with the thousands of acres of farmland to be fallowed due to the ...

Researchers from the University of California, Davis, have been awarded a $10 million grant by the U.S. Department of Agriculture’s National Institute of Food and Agriculture to find ways to sustain ...

Besides the state lands it leased, the farm also owns land in both Arizona and California. The Almarai Company owns about 10,000 acres of farmland in Arizona under its subsidiary, Fondomonte.