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Xithras

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4. Our local ID recently announced the water allotments for this year.

Reply to G_j (Original post)

Mon Feb 24, 2014, 01:10 PM

Feb 2014

Standard allotment in normal years is 42 inches per acre. This year it will be 18. That's a hell of a lot better than the federally dependent farmers further south who are getting zero inches, but it's still pretty abysmal. The good news for the nut growers is that it's enough to keep the trees and vineyards alive. It's BARELY enough to grow tomatoes and other low crops. The corn and alfalfa farmers are going to be in a lot of trouble though. They'll probably have to augment with pumped groundwater, but that's a hell of a lot more expensive and is going to drive their crop prices sky high.

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