Sheri Quinn
Utah Public Radio News Director
Nathan Thayn (left), Lee Thayn (middle) and Ross Thayn (right), are some of the few full-time farmers in Green River, Utah. They are shown on their property in October 2023. They grow alfalfa and corn and participated in an experiment by the Upper Colorado River Commission to fallow a field to save water. Manuel Rodriguez, FOX 13 News.
Nathan Thayn (left), Lee Thayn (middle) and Ross Thayn (right), are some of the few full-time farmers in Green River, Utah. They are shown on their property in October 2023. They grow alfalfa and corn and participated in an experiment by the Upper Colorado River Commission to fallow a field to save water. Manuel Rodriguez, FOX 13 News.
Utah program pays farmers to fallow crops and it’s saving a little bit of water for the Colorado River. Whether it should be a solution for Great Salt Lake is still a thorny issue with ripple effects...
Utah is spending more than $200 million to get agriculture to switch to water saving technologies. But is the saved water getting to the Great Salt Lake?
Utah program helps farmers grow crops with less water. Is it helping the Great Salt Lake?
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Rubab Saher, a researcher in hydrologic sciences with Desert Research Institute (DRI), in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.
(Trent Nelson | The Salt Lake Tribune) Dr. Rubab Saher, a researcher in hydrologic sciences with Desert Research Institute (DRI), in Las Vegas, Nevada on Friday, Sept. 30, 2022.
Removing all high-water-use plants is not the panacea in times of rising temperatures and droughts across the southwest, according to a new study. Deadly flooding of the Indus River in Pakistan back i...
Great Salt Lake (UPR)
The Great Salt Lake Hydro Mapper is a user-friendly webpage with information about what’s happening with Great Salt Lake in real-time, like the water and salinity levels and most importantly, what’s h...
Earl Creech / UPR Utah farm irrigation system
Earl Creech / UPR Utah farm irrigation system
Matt Yost is a Utah State University professor in Plants, Soils & Climate and USU Extension specialist. He knows farming first-hand. He grew up on a dairy farm in Burley Idaho. “My father still operat...