Irrigation Wastewater: Waste Not, Want Not

In California’s San Joaquin Valley, high-clay saline-sodic soils can dry out and crack. Water is in short supply there, so ARS researchers are studying how to use spent, or already used, irrigation water to raise a salt-tolerant forage to improve the soil and feed cattle. (D186-2)


Agricultural producers on the west side of California’s San Joaquin Valley (WSJV) used to drain irrigation