California’s hot and arid interior is hardly comparable to the often soggy part of southern Ontario that Scott Buchan calls home. Full Story

The big yellow signs are like tombstones placed in front of empty, dusty fields and orchards full of dead almond trees. They bear angry words: “Congress-created dust bowl.” Full Story

Canada’s farm country is vastly different from California’s, especially when it comes to climate and water shortages. But California offers a lesson to anyone in the business of farming: when water is in short supply, you need to innovate. Full Story

Not every empty field in the San Joaquin Valley can be blamed on water shortages – some have had so much irrigation water poured on them that salt build-up in both the soil and underlying water table has left them unfit to farm. Full Story