Jace Miller has always known exactly what he wanted to do. He began working on his family’s farm south of Phoenix at the age of nine. When other boys were playing football, he was driving a tractor. He has grown to love the long, hot days and even the acts of God. At 30, he’s inheriting a century-old farming business, has a first child on the way, and says there are only two things that could force a career change: “For me, it’s bankruptcy or death. I’m a farmer.
. But one thing has been consistently clear: Agriculture uses far more water than any other sector. If the region is going to sustain its current rate of population and economic growth, water on fields must be put toward other uses. That is already happening. It has now arrived, and the GRIC is beginning a new chapter in which it controls the future of farming in central Arizona., director of the Pima-Maricopa Irrigation Project, a $900-million undertaking to pipe water throughout the reservation. Prior to the dams of the 1870s, tribal fields had been a regional breadbasket, feeding and clothing locals, including white ranchers and miners, and communities 300 miles away in Mexico.
It seems unlikely, however, given predictions from climate models for yet hotter weather, that the central valley will ever regain that luster. GRIC farms fallowed significant acreage last season in solidarity with regional goals to shore up water stores, and the community leases its unused water to those who need it, including the City of Phoenix.
Today, off-reservation farmers have more recent generational knowledge of desert farming and more of the wealth needed to own, operate, and maintain commercial farming equipment. Miller works about 6,500 tribal acres and has built a kind of cooperative that pools resources among GRIC farmers for better bargaining power when buying seed and selling crops. The arrangement has been a win-win.
There also has been more government money for improvements on individual farms, but distribution has been slow. Davis waited 16 years for the USDA to level his land with a common laser-guided process. The regrading greatly improved how efficiently water floods across a field of hay. Flood irrigation requires little equipment, and is normal—if not particularly judicious—throughout Arizona.Labor is also in short supply, as it is across the United States.
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Interesting and educational read-Thanks
Surprisingly we might see middle America run out of water as the Ogallala Aquifer sinks to low levels.
When Grandma moved to Casa Grande in 1941, the ephemeral spring grasses grew “as high as the mule’s bellies”. By the 70’s it was 12 inches. Now, it barely grows after the spring rains. The groundwater has been pumped thousands of feet lower. Mesquite trees are dead. Cactus dying.
The farmers are going to have to adapt and change. Perhaps grow crops that are not water intense or perhaps give up farming all together. Either way, it's going to be a harsh lesson that nature can punish mankind at any time (whether through drought, flood, or hurricane).
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They have mismanaged water allocations!
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It's a long article but since it's been decided that water is more precious than gold, NG has put a new and important light on the drought for Az. farmers. Worthwhile piece even if you are a city dweller.
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