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An Arizona Farmer on How to Grow Alfalfa in the Middle of the Desert

Odd Lots

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The Importance of Water in Farming

A lot of the water that we specifically use for the past 100 years has come from Phoenix water treatment plant. We've never had a fear of losing our water until with technology, the water treatment plants have gotten really good at cleaning water and desalimization plants. A tree called a salt cedar tree brought in to infest their river is overgrown it's uses a lot of water. Since that tree has been brought in and it's infested their river and even the desert, the water doesn't flow down the Gila River very much anymore. Rarely does it.

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