Making a Difference: Understanding the Upcycling and Recycling Difference
Assisting and advising growers and members
1. Assisting and advising growers and members of the Ag
Community with agricultural water quality protection and
regulatory compliance.
KAYMERCER
kay@kaymercer.com
Kaymercer.com
3. „ Room for Improvement
„ Ground Zero for WQ regulation
„ Possible Game Changer
„ Assume Grower Resiliency
„ Tradition of Innovation
„ Solutions? It depends…
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5. Top 10 (out of 150) Crops
61%
28%
~4%
30%
57%
56%
48%
38%
% U.S. SUPPLY
8. „ Does NOT waive
regulation
„ Waives individual
permits
„ Categorical Permit
„ History:
„ Ag Waiver 1.0 – 2004
„ Ag Waiver 2.0 – 2012
„ Ag Wavier 3.0 – 2017
„ Ag Waiver 4.0 –
March, 2020?
Requires farmers and landowners to implement management practices, and conduct monitoring
and reporting, to ensure that farms are not polluting surface water or groundwater
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10.
11. „ WRITE / IMPLEMENT a Groundwater Sustainability Plan
„ Address 6 significant and unreasonable undesirable effects
“A central feature of these bills is the recognition that groundwater management in California
is best accomplished locally.”
Groundwater Basins MUST:
Ø FORM a Groundwater Sustainable Agency
13. „ Current permit/associated BO, establishing
“take” expires in 2020.
„ Impacts 13 projects
„ Projects w/o federal nexus – Utilize HCP
„ Timeline
„ Why is this so important?
14. „ Intricate/complex Production Systems
„ Conflicting Perspectives
„ Research Data Gaps
„ Research vs. Development
„ No silver bullet – lots of little BMPs
„ “One more thing”
„ Leaders are spread too thin: crisis mgt
„ Price takers – cannot pass on expenses
„ Risk and liability
„ Uncertainty
20. • Cold storage
• Futures contracts
• Dairy products
• Chilled transport
• Transport boxes
• Field pack
• Retail Packaging
• Automation
• Drip Irrigation
• Genetics/strawberry
• Seawater intrusion
• Fish Habitat
• GW recharge
• Year-round production
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22. „ Room for Improvement
„ Ground Zero for WQ regulation
„ Possible Game Changer
„ Assume Grower Resiliency
„ Tradition of Innovation
„ Solutions? It depends…
23. Assisting and advising growers and members of the Ag
Community with agricultural water quality protection and
regulatory compliance.
KAYMERCER
kay@kaymercer.com
Kaymercer.com