Agribusiness Update for Friday 04/03/15

U.S. Citizenship and Immigration Services (USCIS) is now accepting applications for the Citizenship and Integration Grant Program, a competitive grant opportunity for organizations that prepare permanent residents for naturalization and promote civic integration through increased knowledge of English, U.S. history and civics. The program will provide up to $10 million in grants for citizenship preparation programs in communities across the country.

California is the first state to impose water restrictions and expects to enforce a 25 percent water use reduction in every city, conserving about 1.5 million acre-feet of water throughout the next nine months. The lack of snowpack and years of repeated drought have brought the state to this point. Ag producers will be required to report more water use information to state regulators and water districts must have management plans in place to help ensure that agricultural communities are prepared in case the drought extends into 2016.

That's today's Agribusiness Update from the Ag Information Network of the West.