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Food Production as an Efficient Movement of Water
Monday Mar 15th, 2021
News Reporter It’s time for your Farm of the Future Report. I’m Tim Hammerich.
It’s no secret that water is a finite resource, and agriculture is a significant user of water to grow our food and fiber. In fact, one way to look at the food system is a way to put on an economic price on water use, says David Doll, a farmer and former farm advisor.
Doll… “You know, we ve been trading water in agriculture for hundreds of years. We just do it in the grain or the apples or the tomatoes or the almonds. That s how we re trading water. We re taking that resource from where we have it and where it may be plentiful at a given time, producing something with it, and then moving that to an area that: one can t produce that crop, or doesn t have the resources to produce that crop.”