Precision Irrigation Leads
To Efficiency
Tommy Horton
Urban Sprawl Continues
One challenge facing producers in nearly every cotton-producing state is the tenuous relationship between ag communities and urban sprawl. This encroachment of city populations into farm areas is creating water rights battles across the country.
Porter believes it is another example of why farmers should be efficient in their irrigation.
"We see this problem everywhere nowadays," she says. "It definitely puts more pressure on the producers to demonstrate that they are more efficient in their practices.
"Producers have always been good stewards of the land. But that's as much of an economic survival strategy as it is basic values."
As one researcher so aptly put it, the future looks good for cotton production on the Texas High Plains – mainly because of the crop's ability to grow on lower levels of water.
"That's what makes this crop so special," he says. "It knows how to survive under pretty difficult conditions."
source : cottonfarming
To Efficiency
Tommy Horton
Urban Sprawl Continues
One challenge facing producers in nearly every cotton-producing state is the tenuous relationship between ag communities and urban sprawl. This encroachment of city populations into farm areas is creating water rights battles across the country.
Porter believes it is another example of why farmers should be efficient in their irrigation.
"We see this problem everywhere nowadays," she says. "It definitely puts more pressure on the producers to demonstrate that they are more efficient in their practices.
"Producers have always been good stewards of the land. But that's as much of an economic survival strategy as it is basic values."
As one researcher so aptly put it, the future looks good for cotton production on the Texas High Plains – mainly because of the crop's ability to grow on lower levels of water.
"That's what makes this crop so special," he says. "It knows how to survive under pretty difficult conditions."
source : cottonfarming
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