A billion-gallon pipeline proposal is igniting a fight over who controls the Midwest’s groundwater Yanasa TV News A quiet stretch of farmland in western Indiana has become the center of one of the most consequential water fights in the Midwest. State officials want to move massive volumes of groundwater across county lines to support a…
The growing battle over who controls the tools that run modern agriculture. Yanasa TV News For generations, fixing farm equipment was simply part of farming. When a tractor broke down, farmers didn’t call a lawyer. They grabbed a wrench. But in the age of software-controlled machinery, that tradition is colliding with a new reality: manufacturers…
New legislation would require large data centers to publicly disclose water use Yanasa TV News As the race to build artificial-intelligence infrastructure accelerates across the United States, lawmakers in Utah are confronting a question many Western states are only beginning to ask: How much water should massive data centers be allowed to use—and should the public know…
Farmers say fertilizer costs never fell. Now federal antitrust investigators are asking why. Yanasa TV News Across the American farm belt, a quiet frustration has been building for years. Corn prices have slid. Margins have tightened. Equipment costs climbed. Interest rates rose. Yet one expense stubbornly refused to return to earth: fertilizer. Now that tension…
The 2026 Central Valley Project Decision That Reignited California’s Water Fight Yanasa TV News On February 26–27, 2026, the U.S. Bureau of Reclamation announced its initial 2026 water year allocation for south-of-Delta agricultural water service contractors under the Central Valley Project (CVP). The number: 15%. For growers on the west side of the San Joaquin Valley — including major contractors like…
California’s AB 732 and the New Policing of Farm Failure Yanasa TV News California agriculture is entering a new phase — not of innovation, not of sustainability, but of enforcement against economic collapse. On January 1, 2026, Assembly Bill 732 quietly takes effect. There were no dramatic floor speeches. No prime-time news segments. No headlines announcing…
The farmland protection law that almost did the opposite — and why the danger isn’t over Yanasa TV News For decades, Connecticut told its farmers a simple story: If you keep farming the land, the state will protect you from being taxed off of it. That promise was embedded in PA 490, the state’s farmland,…
America Won’t Starve. But Rural America May Pay First. Yanasa TV News Iranian state media has confirmed the death of Supreme Leader Ali Khamenei, and announced a 40‑day mourning period. That single confirmation didn’t just change politics—it hardened what markets were already beginning to price: heightened disruption risk around the Strait of Hormuz. This is…
Kansas Cuts Farmers 20%. Texas Signs a 20-Year AI Water Deal. Same Aquifer. Yanasa TV News North of Amarillo, an 18-million-square-foot AI campus known as “Project Matador” is being planned on 6,000 acres leased from Texas Tech University. The project has secured a 20-year agreement with the City of Amarillo for up to 2.5 million gallons…
How Britain’s inheritance tax fight and environmental permitting are converging on family farms Yanasa TV News A rare court move signals deeper trouble In early 2026, the UK High Court quietly did something it almost never does in tax cases: it ordered an urgent, two-day rolled-up judicial review of changes to inheritance tax reliefs affecting farms and…