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hatrack

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4. No, I know what you're getting at - and for local/tribal ag communities, it's about self-sufficiency

Reply to bluedigger (Reply #3)

Wed Apr 3, 2024, 04:36 PM

Apr 2024

But with massive enterprises designed to grow and export hay from the Mojave, or to cultivate pecans (26,000 acres of pecans in Arizona alone) and 3.2 gallons of water per almond, (with 74,000 acres in almonds in California alone), I'm squinting hard for some sort of recognition that these crops are being grown in a desert or semi-arid territories.

Haven't seen it yet . . .

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What's The Biggest Single Use Of Federally Subsidized Colorado River Water? Growing Hay. [View all] hatrack Apr 2024 OP

I live next to a hay farm in the Four Corners. bluedigger Apr 2024 #1

Yes, obviously the Colorado Plateau and SW are the only hay-growing regions in the US . . . hatrack Apr 2024 #2

That was not my point. bluedigger Apr 2024 #3

No, I know what you're getting at - and for local/tribal ag communities, it's about self-sufficiency hatrack Apr 2024 #4