Posted by JerryS on August 02, 2012 at 19:47:43 from (98.80.104.219):
Some of you asked for more photos. Couple of days ago I went for a drive through the major agricultural area of my parish, which is in the northwest corner of Louisiana, abutting Texas and Arkansas. The Red River cuts through this farmland, and the land shown here is only about a mile from the river---a fact that raises questions I don't have the answers to. Some of the corn shown here is, to my eye, dead and unproductive. Other corn is tall and laden. In some cases (shown in photo) a good field is directly next to a bad field. Apparently some is irrigated and some is not.
Nearly all of these are long-established family farms that have been there over 100 years. Why some have irrigation and some don't, I don't know. As I said, Red River is right at their backs, and the Red River Alluvial Aquifier is only 60 feet down. I wanted to ask some questions, but nobody I ran into spoke English.
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