Chinook, as usual, pulls out in front, dragging me along like a wet bale of hay ... for Hockley Valley Resort sit idle. Below us, the valley opens up in bands of green forest and fields dotted ...

McBroom and other Imperial Valley farmers agreed to leave many hay fields unwatered for seven weeks this year in exchange for cash payments from a federally funded program designed to alleviate ...

It was 111 degrees when Mark McBroom stepped from his air-conditioned pickup and onto a dry alfalfa field. Remnants of desiccated hay crunched underfoot, and the sun-baked soil was fragmented with ...