September 2024
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Vol. 109 No. 9
Many others keeping DPR Spray Days proposal will change pesticide notices eyes on groundwater battle in Kings County TOP STORY
All notice of intended applications (NOIs) must be submitted to the county agricultural commissioner online at least 24 hours before the start of application for restricted-use materials. For soil fumigations (pictured here), NOIs must be submitted electronically at least 48 hours before the application start.
By Craig W. Anderson THE NEWEST REGULATION from the California Department of Pesticide Regulation, “Spray Days,” may not seem controversial but many questions about it have surfaced as it moves toward imple-
mentation early in 2025. The regulation creates an online map of upcoming applications of restricted-use pesticides based on data from notices of intent farmers submit to county agricultural See Spray Days, page 6
AS THEY DRAFT their five-year groundwater plan update, San Joaquin County water leaders continue to watch the Kings County Farm Bureau lawsuit against the state’s takeover of local groundwater management. “We’ve definitely got it on the radar,” said Dave Simpson, a Lodi-area winegrape grower and Northern San Joaquin Water Conservation District board member. “We’re paying attention to what’s going on down there and what Farm Bureau is doing. The advice we’re getting from counsel is we need to start thinking about it now. If you don’t have a plan in
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The Northern San Joaquin Water Conservancy District in partnership with the East Bay Municipal Utilities District, developed Tracy Lakes near Lodi for groundwater recharge. When the nearby Mokelumne River is running high, pumps transfer surplus water from it to Tracy Lakes.
place and we have a dry year, the state’s going to want to throttle pumping, so we have to have some type of plan in place should that happen.”
The groundwater plan update and Kings County Farm Bureau lawsuit involve the
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