[ckilmer]

$450@acre foot is world class if they can do it in scale.

[ckilmer]

mentioned in the article: Sundrop farms--an australian green house operation that uses solar power to desalinate seawater and heat the green house.

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In the Media

July 2013: ABC’ Gardening Australia visits Sundrop Farms

In the Media

July 2013: ABC Catalyst visits Sundrop Farms

July 2013: Katars Wüste soll Millionen Menschen ernähren

Benjamin Reuter writes for the German magazine Wirtschafts Woche on Sundrop Farms’ participation in Qatar’s mission to become self-sufficient in food production. Full Article

November 2012: Growing Food in the Desert

Miracle in the Desert: Jonathan Margolis, an author and regular Observer contributor, travels to the Australian desert to discover an industrial Garden of Eden. Full Article

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[cpdiii]

Corn needs about 1 acre foot of water to grow properly. Of course this is all dependent on soil type and environment and wind and temperature. If you can grow 150 bushels of corn under ideal conditions you are looking at $3.33 dollars of expense per bushel of corn in water that is produced by this method. This puts corn out of the question as a crop to be grown using this method of water production. The point is that this method is only viable for high value crops that need much less water.

I am not against this method of water production but one must always remember what it costs to do it, and what can you sell your crop for.

If you want to know how to utilize limited water resources in agriculture, go to Israel. They have little water and use what they have to the absolute max efficiency.