Without irrigation it has ALWAYS been too dry in that area to plant corn. Planting wheat is a crap shoot to boot. The area was made into farmland by promoters in the early part of the last century by declaration. If not for that it would still have been buffalo pasture.
Know where Felt, Oklahoma is? I know it well, can’t raise much more than a fuss there without irrigation. Beautiful empty country and best left that way.
Agreed. Colorado is beautiful scenery -— for a climate that’s always dry.
Parts of Colorado irrigate and do grow corn .
Wheat will grow, I think, without irrigation most of the time.
But in Colorado corn would have to be irrigated .
Yonder across 'the Beaver' southeast of Wheeless. :) Dry all over that part of the world. Droughted out on dry land corn north of the Arkansas last year. Subsoil isn't any better right now. It has shelled out 80+ bu/acre in the past.
Planting crops where there is no rainfall is just asking for trouble.
Re: 2 - I have a friend familiar with that area (via her job in public health (she’s one of the good guys)). I texted her about that area of the Panhandle and the drought. She replied back “if you don’t irrigate, you’re growing nothing but ‘dreams.”