With groundwater limits and persistent drought squeezing California's water-intensive staples, growers from Yolo County to the Central Valley are turning fallowed acreage into agave fields. As reported by The Globe and Mail, this slow-growing, low-wa

As California's wine grape growers grapple with oversupply and falling demand, some in Lake and Mendocino counties are eyeing an unlikely replacement crop: blue agave. At a UCCE field day along Clear Lake, multigenerational grape farmers tasted Calif

California's agave industry just outgrew UC Davis. The fourth annual California Agave Symposium landed in Santa Barbara this year, pulling in 250 growers, distillers, and researchers from as far as Italy and Australia — proof that Golden State agav