Food Concerns

Food concerns.

I produce cows, not many, but always one for harvest and one or two for sale. On this beautiful morning I was out doing my chores and I was checking irrigation dams for the efficiency of the flood irrigation to the lower part of the property. As I was turning off the single phase electric pump that runs the sprinklers for the upper field before the sun came up and evaporation took over, I was thinking about the water factor in keeping this place green and the cows at home. All over the midwest, Illinois, Iowa, Nebraska and other places where they normally have rains to keep crops growing, the US farm belt, is facing the worst drought in many many years. The lack of an irrigation system for these areas has left the farm crop decimated. Assumed yearly rainfall may be permanently altered as climate change affects our weather in seemingly strange ways. Food shortages are going to push up food prices and what has been an abundance of supply may be a shortage. We that are capable need to step up and produce more.

I have an eighteen acre field that should be tilled and producing some soy bean or winter wheat crop. I will contact my Colorado State University agricultural extention agent and get him or her out here to learn more of what I can do to make this land more productive. …More to follow on seasonal projects