It doesn't take an agronomist to realize that Jeff Raybould wouldn't be growing many crops on his 2,000-acre farm west of St. Anthony, Idaho, without irrigation. After all, much of the main farm borders sagebrush-covered BLM (Bureau of Land Management) land, and the St. Anthony Sand Dunes are only a couple miles away, which means that most of Raybould's fields already contain more sand than soil.
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