Isn't it being allocated already? A customer we harvested for in the Garden City area has had all of his irrigated land in corn for the feedlots but because of the lowering aquifer he's had to switch some of the pivots to wheat because it takes less water. Ten years ago or so I was asking some questions about irrigation to a farmer south of Phoenix. He was angrily telling me the water rights situation. The housing developments are growing beyond belief in his area, eating up many thousands of acres of farm land. Those developments are drilling down into the aquifer for their own water, or are using existing irrigation wells. If the water table goes below a certain level the farmers will have to shut down their wells but the houses can keep pumping. Just another example of urban encroachment.
Get on Google earth and look at the irrigated areas of our country. You'll be surprised at how many circles you see. The major areas I've seen personally are southern Arizona, western Kansas, eastern Colorado, Southwest Nebraska, and southeast Idaho. There are many more areas beside those. All they know is irrigation. They have no concept of what it's like to not irrigate. When I was on the harvest in Idaho I was chatting with a farmer and told him I'm a farmer, too, in Iowa. First thing he asked me was "who waters your crops while you're gone"? Jim
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