Comments on: At Last, States Reach a Colorado River Deal: Pay Farmers Not to Farm https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/states-reach-a-colorado-river-deal/ Farm. Food. Life. Sat, 10 Jun 2023 01:46:39 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.4.3 By: Paula Shackleton https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/states-reach-a-colorado-river-deal/#comment-64767 Sat, 10 Jun 2023 01:46:39 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=149029#comment-64767 Yes folks, as a farmer I know, hard choices are ahead if we are to maintain our precious riparian ecosystems. Crops that require inordinate amounts of water need to be substituted for things that are less thirsty. Plain and simple.

]]> By: Olds David https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/states-reach-a-colorado-river-deal/#comment-64482 Sun, 28 May 2023 21:14:55 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=149029#comment-64482 Too many people.

]]> By: Donald Dunham https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/states-reach-a-colorado-river-deal/#comment-64480 Sun, 28 May 2023 16:43:33 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=149029#comment-64480 We need to look at how they irrigate, there are better solutions.

]]> By: Rhino https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/states-reach-a-colorado-river-deal/#comment-64476 Sun, 28 May 2023 14:55:13 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=149029#comment-64476 What about the food that won’t be produced by all those farming orgs not planting? Saving water, fantastic, but now we’ll have a produce shortage ? Which leads to (more) insane price increases? We solve one problem and create another one…

What am I missing?

]]> By: Amelia Nicol https://modernfarmer.com/2023/05/states-reach-a-colorado-river-deal/#comment-64374 Thu, 25 May 2023 19:18:46 +0000 https://modernfarmer.com/?p=149029#comment-64374 This is a worrisome subject, I really enjoyed reading this article about it, it was interesting to learn the percent* of water used by agriculture alone in the lower part of the Colorado River basin.

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