USDA reported hay sale prices for southeastern California ... families use most of IID's agricultural water supply, largely to grow alfalfa, an investigation by The Desert Sun and ProPublica ...

Growing hay and other forage and irrigating pasture for livestock (mainly cattle) takes at least 10 million acre-feet of water in an average year, or more than 20 percent of the water used in ...

If the rancher must sell off the momma cow because pastures are too dry to grow, hay tonnage in bales will continue to grow at the fields edge and will continue to be very slow to move down the road.

So there's nothing that's going to grow there,” Adams said. “So not only are we facing a shortage now because we're having to buy a second amount of hay for the winter, for equines and cattle ...

SMITH THOMAS For Farm & Ranch Jul 20, 2021 Jul 20, 2021 0 Ranchers in the West have typically grazed cattle on summer pastures — often in the mountains or desert rangelands near their ranch or ...