San Joaquin soil was initially documented and officially established in California in 1900 and therefore is the oldest, continuously recognized soil series within the state. It was designated the ...

Farmer John Diener walks through his organic field of Broccoli which has usable soil compared to the 15 percent of his land which has high levels of salts as seen near Five Points Calif., on ...

Even as blue skies return, flood-weary farmers in the San Joaquin Valley have only to look east, to the towering Sierra mantled in snow, to know there is worse to come.

San Joaquin Valley continues to sink because of groundwater pumping, NASA says × Subsidence occurs when water is removed from underground aquifers and the surrounding soil collapses on itself.

On Aug. 20, 1997, the San Joaquin Soil Series in the Central Valley became the official soil of California. To learn more about soil science, ...

When I finally got a hold of John Diener, the busy 62-year-old farmer was en route to his organic broccoli field in central California’s San Joaquin Valley. I could picture the scene: a truck ...

San Joaquin County almond farmer Christine Gemperle says it's something she thinks about every single day."I guess I've had anxiety over it, ... Research shows that sandy soil, ...

As California's San Joaquin River meanders down from the Sierra Nevada across the Central Valley toward the San Francisco Bay, it loses water to farms and communities along the way.