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A new NCA report shows that Southwest snowpack and streamflows have declined over this past decade. Climate models project continued reduction in snowpack and streamflow in many of the region's major river basins, and increased drought duration and severity throughout the region....More

The world produced a record rice crop in 2012-13, according to USDA estimates, but records were also broken for use and trade....More

A growing concern over the proliferation of a new pest across the U.S. not only has farmers concerned from coast-to-coast but has prompted USDA to rank the pest as its top invasive insect in the nation....More

RUPs are pesticides that have been determined by the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) to have a greater chance of causing harm to public health, farm workers, domestic animals, wildlife, certain crops, water, or other sensitive organisms or sites,” says Gina Alessandri, President of the Association of American Pesticide Control Officials and Director, Pesticide and Plant Pest Management Division, Michigan Department of Agriculture and Rural Development....More

Interior Secretary Ken Salazar delivered the results of a three-year water study affecting the U.S. Southwest and Far West during a conference from Las Vegas warning representatives from numerous local, state and federal agencies and civilian stakeholders that a “call to action” is required to prevent serious water shortages in the years ahead for city-dwellers, Native Americans, businesses, ranchers and farmers in at least seven states...More

Unless Congress acts before Jan. 1, 2013, the federal estate tax exemption is set to drop from $5.12 million to $1 million while the tax rate is set to rise from 35 percent to 55 percent for estates valued over the exemption amount....More