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Climate Central: On a warm March afternoon, farmer Cannon Michael walks alongside wheat fields adjacent to his house in Los Banos, in California's Central Valley. Most of these fields won't be watered again this year.
Cannon Michael in on a mission to preserve farming in California, despite layers of agricultural regulations and the state's historic drought.
"Wheat's not a glamorous crop, but it makes a lot of bread,' Michael quips.
This wheat, though, won't return much money, Michael says. So it will be......
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One Farmer’s Battle with California’s Worst Drought
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on April 4th, 2015
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