https://phys.org/news/2025-03-landscape-scale-pesticide-pollution-upper.html
Would be interested in what you think about studies like this. How much do you watch out for this and is there anything that helps here? Is that changing where the grapes are grown?
first take is that this is jsut a great eample of how everything is connected. IDK if there's anything an individual can really do about it for their farm wholistically though I'm sure there are specific things each individual can do.
Its not something I really worry about because we dry farm and because any water that is irrigated around us is the first use of that water. its not discharge from a farm upstream because there are no farms upstream.
Thats impossible to mitigate if you're downstream of a ton of farms. Water gets filled with more and more crap as it gets closer to the ocean
This is a good example of how everything is connected.
I am not sure there is much an individual can do about it at the farm level as a whole, though there are probably specific ways each farm can adapt.
It is not something I really worry about here. We dry farm, and any water that is irrigated around us is first-use water.
There are no farms upstream, so we are not dealing with runoff or discharge.
If you are downstream from a lot of farms, that is almost impossible to avoid.
Water tends to pick up more and more junk the closer it gets to the ocean.
