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With less water to go around and hotter conditions threatening many legacy crops, farmers are fallowing more acres and losing ...

These are new plants that grow from the roots of the mother plant. Like bulbils, agave pups are exact clones of the mother ...

He’s been using bury drip irrigation on his plants during the growing season, giving them just enough water at their root system. Rows of agave, planted by Woolf Farming along Interstate 5 ...

Farmers in California are trying to plant crops that don't require a lot of water. Some are turning to growing agave as a ...

Climate change and drought has driven California farmers to seek more resilient crops — like agave. And as the crop takes off ...

After that, he says he'll find the plant's owner and ask whether he can harvest it. "We're doing this in a kind of organic — not grassroots, but almost agave roots movement," Nelson says.