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Ask a rancher: Surveys draw on hard-won wisdom for surviving drought
  • Author: Trina Kleist
Published on: December 11, 2024
White sheep look at the camera while standing on lush, green grass under a tree and blue sky.
Sheep graze in the Placer County foothills. Grazing different kinds of livestock, such as sheep, goats and cattle, helped some ranchers shore up profits during the megadrought of 2012-16. Photo by Daniel Macon

Roche team lands $1 million to help ranchers stay strong   

California ranchers benefit when they plan ahead for extreme weather variability, according to rancher surveys and interviews conducted by a team headed by Leslie Roche, a professor of Cooperative Extension in the UC Davis Department of Plant Sciences.

But while wise planning and climate-smart adaptations helped ranchers survive the state's record-breaking 2012-2016 drought, those strategies by themselves were not...

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