GIVE-AND-TAKE IRRIGATION:TEXAS FARMER USES MULTIPLE PRACTICES TO EARN STRONG YIELDS ON MINIMAL ACRE-INCHES OF WATER.

摘要

When it comes to irrigation, it might be a gross understatement to say that Chris Grotegut thinks outside the box. Sitting on 11,000 acres just west of Hereford, Texas, Grotegut can already see the water table declining in the area. Yet, he doesn't want to think about a day when there might not be enough groundwater to support irrigation. So he's initiated an ambitious plan to use no more irrigation water than is naturally recharged into the aquifer annually.