07-02-2018, 06:02 PM
Yeah it seems like there is less and less farm ground these days, it's true that there is still farming around, but up and down the Wasatch front the farm ground is really getting covered up with new growth...
I suspect the ag contribution to nitrates in the water is far less these days than it was in the 70's... and past years... A lot more conservative practices with waste water and higher costs of fertilizer, and better management practices, not to mention less acreage has had to result in less of a contribution on the farming side of the equation... although that is the common scape goat that the talking heads like to blame, I suspect true science would show it's not as big of culprit as it's blamed to be...
Talked to the Provo river commissioner over the weekend and he was telling me, that most of the ag ground on the lower Provo had turned their water rights into municipalities due to the land being covered with houses these days... and ya know farmers wouldn't give up water unless there wasn't any place to use it...
Guess my FFA indoctrination is showing, but as an industry we need to speak up for the truth when it helps reduce the bad reputation that we sometimes get. Sorry for the soap box... Later J
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I suspect the ag contribution to nitrates in the water is far less these days than it was in the 70's... and past years... A lot more conservative practices with waste water and higher costs of fertilizer, and better management practices, not to mention less acreage has had to result in less of a contribution on the farming side of the equation... although that is the common scape goat that the talking heads like to blame, I suspect true science would show it's not as big of culprit as it's blamed to be...
Talked to the Provo river commissioner over the weekend and he was telling me, that most of the ag ground on the lower Provo had turned their water rights into municipalities due to the land being covered with houses these days... and ya know farmers wouldn't give up water unless there wasn't any place to use it...
Guess my FFA indoctrination is showing, but as an industry we need to speak up for the truth when it helps reduce the bad reputation that we sometimes get. Sorry for the soap box... Later J
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