It seems amazing to think it is cost effective to export “hay” from Arizona across the oceans.
Reporter Nathan Halverson tells NPR’s Renee Montagne that Almarai bought about 15 square miles in the Arizona desert.
“They got about 15 water wells when they purchased the property. Now, each one of those wells can pump about 1.5 billion gallons of water. It’s an incredible amount of water they’re going to be drawing up from that aquifer underground,” Halverson says.
The land in question had previously been under cultivation for corn, cotton and other crops, including smaller amounts of alfalfa for hay, he tells The Salt. Halverson’s sources told him that the farm is now consuming significantly more water, since alfalfa is a particularly thirsty crop.
It turns out that hay yields in the desert are the best in the United States. You can literally get three or four times as much hay growing in the desert because you have a very long growing season: It’s hot, so the hay dries really quickly once you cut it. But the rub here is that you need ... lots of water. The temperatures are so high that it takes a lot more water to keep that barren soil moist for the alfalfa to grow.
We deplete their oil, they take our money and in turn deplete our water to make hay to feed their Arabian mares and stallions.
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Hay is for horses. It’s not about hay, it’s about a foothold.
stop them , and stop them now.
Any politician asking for Muslims needs to be recalled ASAP and labeled a traitor, IMO.
Since frakking isn’t the source of the earthquake swarms, maybe its the loss of the water? Our water table has been dropping for a while hasn’t it?