A blanket of bright green alfalfa spreads across western Arizona’s McMullen Valley, ringed by rolling mountains and warmed by the hot desert sun.
Matthew Hancock’s family has used groundwater to grow forage crops here for more than six decades. They’re long accustomed to caprices of Mother Nature that can spoil an entire alfalfa cutting with a downpour or generate an especially big yield with a string of blistering days.
But concerns about future water supplies from the valley’s ancient aquifers, which hold groundwater supplies, are bubbling up in Wenden, a town of around 700 people where the Hancock family farms.
Some neighbors complain their backyard wells have dried up since the Emirati agribusiness Al Dahra began farming alfalfa here on about 3,000 acres (1,214 hectares) several years ago.
Or you know, we should stop farming in the desert. But that’s just me.
Sure, we should, but using our water to farm for another country is even worse.
Isn’t that one of those cases where people farm alfalfa and sich just to keep their water allowance while the state issues water quotas on made up water availability figures which vastly overstate how much water is actually available?
Salt Lake is drying up in Utah that will make the city unhabitable for the same fucking crop. And no one stops them.
This kind of shit you get your pitchforks out and start dragging rich people from thier fucking homes.
Oooh, scary regulations vs. scary foreigners. This breaks the republican brain. Taps head… What if regulating corporations is good as long as theyre foreigners? Yea, thats the ticket, regulations are ok on brown people. Pretty sure jesus himself said it somewhere in that book. Ahhhh yea, feels good man. This satisfies my free market fuck the poors principles as well as my racism. Hey marge, fire up the coal rollin’ truck ima go buy me another fjb flag.
It doesn’t help we elected a water official whose only experience is selling water to the Saudis. Wanna guess what he instantly did the moment his power was switched on?
Execute heretics?
In a way, yes. That is basically the sentence when you’re selling water out of the desert like they’re hot cakes.
“We told you so” incoming in 3, 2, 1…
Sounds like a made up word (but no) :
https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/AlfalfaAlfalfa, also called lucerne, is a perennial flowering plant (…). It is cultivated as an important forage crop in many countries around the world. It is used for grazing, hay, and silage, as well as a green manure and cover crop.
Alfalfa sprouts make many sandwiches better
Very good indeed. I heard there is concern about salmonella bacteria in alfalfa… Maybe soaking in water + salt + vinegar be enough ?
Edit (from wikipedia) :Alfalfa sprouts may contain microbiological pathogens, mainly from Salmonella or E. coli, which have caused numerous food product recalls and illness outbreaks, putting sprouts into a “high risk” category for food safety. People with weakened immune systems, such as the elderly, pregnant women, or those taking prescription drugs affecting the immune system, should not eat sprouts.
