Drought shutters sugar mill: The Rio Grande Valley Sugar Growers Association said it was closing its sugar mill in Santa Rosa, Texas, — the last sugar mill in the state — after two years of drought and dwindling irrigation allotments for 100 growers. (AIM Media Texas)
Dairy Margin Coverage signup: The enrollment window for the Dairy Margin Coverage subsidy opens on Wednesday and runs through April 29; payments can begin as early as March 4 for milk produced in January. (USDA)
Drowning Louisiana wetlands: Three-fourths, or more, of Louisiana’s coastal wetlands “could be drowning by 2070 as climate change fuels rising seas, said three Tulane scientists in the journal Nature Communications. (NOLA.com)
Gene-edited pigs: British company Genus says it hopes for FDA approval by the end of this year for human consumption of its gene-edited pigs that resist a common and expensive disease among hogs. (Science)
Tulare Lake mostly gone: Fed by historic storms last winter, Tulare Lake, the “ghost” lake of California’s San Joaquin Valley, had nearly as much surface area as Lake Tahoe but is now only “several patches of standing water.” (San Francisco Chronicle)