Over-pumping of California Groundwater and Mexico's President on U.S. Beef Imports
From the Ag Information Network, this is your Agribusiness Update.
**A new report from the California Natural Resources Agency found subsidence, or the sinking of land, in the Central Valley caused by the over-pumping of groundwater has restricted the amount of water the state can deliver each year by 3%.
The SWP supplies water to 27 million Californians and 750,000 farmland acres.
Without action, the current trajectory of subsidence, combined with climate change, could reduce water deliveries by 87% by 2043.
**Mexican President Claudia Sheinbaum isn’t happy with the
Trump administration’s decision to suspend imports of Mexican beef cattle for 15 days because of detections of screwworm.
Sheinbaum says the Mexican government has worked on all fronts from the first moment they were alerted to the screwworm.
Ag Secretary Brooke Rollins pointed out the last time the devastating pest invaded the U.S., it took the livestock industry 30 years to recover.
**Democrats responded negatively to House Republicans advancing their budget to slash Medicaid and food assistance.
Democratic National Committee Chair Ken Martin says Republicans turned their back on working families to “suck up” to billionaire donors.
Democrats issued a message to House Republicans, saying, “Start working for your constituents or lose your seat in the midterm elections.”
The Hill says the committee voted along party lines after a meeting lasting more than 26 hours.
