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Take Two

Can California farmers benefit from dry farming methods?

By Take Two Staff
Published May 29, 2013
Workers fill boxes with containers strawberries for shipment. Each box is labeled with a serial number, with codes for the farm, strawberry variety, and Julian date.
Workers fill boxes with containers strawberries for shipment. Each box is labeled with a serial number, with codes for the farm, strawberry variety, and Julian date.
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Take Two translates the day’s headlines for Southern California, making sense of the news and cultural events that affect our lives. Produced by Southern California Public Radio and broadcast from October 2012 – June 2021. Hosted by A Martinez.

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Can California farmers benefit from dry farming methods?

One option farmers worried about the effects of drought might look into is a method called dry farming. As you might have guessed, it involves growing crops without using irrigation systems.

Jay Lund, director of the Center for Watershed Sciences at UC Davis, joins the show to tell us how dry farming works.