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ullseye Farms orchard manager Nick Edsall, left, with UC Davis Agricultural Water Center Director Isaya Kisekka. Kisekka is researching the ability of cover crops to increase soil moisture and groundwater recharge. (Greg Urquiaga/UC Davis) They stand in a row of green cover crops in an orchard full of young pistachio trees.

Growing Crops with Less Groundwater

by Amy Quinton
April 25, 2023

Woman in purple jacket stands in rain in almond orchard for groundwater recharge experiment.

Will a Wet Winter End Water Woes?

by Andy Fell
March 27, 2023

Four researchers measure soil moisture content in an agricultural crop at UC Davis Agricultural Research Farm

UC Davis to Lead Groundwater and Irrigated Agriculture Sustainability Study

by Tiffany Dobbyn
October 18, 2021

Flooding Farms in the Rain to Restore Groundwater

by Kat Kerlin
January 26, 2016

Helping replenish California's groundwater

by Kat Kerlin
December 09, 2015

Flooding farms in the winter may help replenish groundwater

by Diane Nelson
September 09, 2015

A dry field sits beside an orchard in Merced. The drought is expected to cost California's agricultural economy $1.84 billion and 10,100 jobs in 2015, according to a UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences report.

Drought costs California agriculture $1.84B and 10,100 jobs in 2015

by Kat Kerlin
August 18, 2015

Water flows from a large pipe as a man monitors the well flow rate

Drought impact study: California agriculture faces greatest water loss ever seen

by Kat Kerlin
July 15, 2014

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