Ag Alert/California Farm Bureau
Earlier this spring, an excavator maneuvered through the rolling hills of eastern Merced County, stacking almond trees removed by farmer Rosie Burroughs. During the past couple years, Burroughs scrapped about 170 acres of almond and walnut trees. Another 140 acres are slated for removal, reducing the family’s acreage by about a fifth.
San Joaquin Valley farmers are increasingly fallowing land as California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act curtails pumping…