A new study finds two crops are major contributors to Great Salt Lake's water woes, but researchers say there are solutions that can drastically improve flows to the lake.

BOISE, Idaho (CBS2) — Farmers in eastern Idaho are facing a potential curtailment of water this year, meaning some 500,000 acres of farmland could dry up if an agreement is not reached soon.

Food systems – what we eat; how we grow, ship and cook it; and how we dispose of (and sometimes waste) it – are responsible for roughly a third of global greenhouse gas emissions. But for the better part of three decades, the final agreements that emerge from the UN’s yearly climate summits have left out the impact food systems have on our climate.

Feeding the world is a big job, and the effort produces billions of mets of emissions of greenhouse gases each year - around a third of the global total.

Despite the fact that food is a big climate problem, very little has been done so far to address it.

A hydroponic forage study at Cornell University showed a small decrease in dry matter intake and an increase in efficiency to make milk when fed in a dairy cattle TMR.

Desert farming, wasteful irrigation and the profoundly thirsty crop is bringing the critical river to the brink.

Amid Arizona’s worsening groundwater crisis, the state’s new attorney general is vowing to crack down on foreign-owned farms that lease land from the state with the benefit of unlimited water pumping.