Tulare County Farm Bureau’s $10,000 contribution to the Kings County Farm Bureau’s legal defense fund has inspired donations from several of its members. The donations will help support the farm bureau’s legal fight against the California State Water Resources Control Board, which farm bureau members believe overreached in enforcing the Sustainable Groundwater Management Act (SGMA). On April 16, 2024, the 837-square-mile Tulare Lake Subbasin, which is almost entirely in Kings County, was put on probation for “groundwater over pumping” and as a consequence, groundwater pumpers in the basin were to be assessed $300 per well and $20 per acre-foot of water. In May, however, Kings County Farm Bureau formed the SGMA Defense Fund to contest these and other sanctions that were to be imposed by the water board.