Posted on 06/22/2024 1:33:04 AM PDT by CFW
Eastern Idaho farmers may soon be out of water after the state issued a major curtailment.
Brian Murdock, a farmer who resides in East Idaho, warned of the potential devastating impact of the order on his business during his appearance on "The Bottom Line" Wednesday.
"Well, as you said, the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources has issued this curtailment of 500,000 acres. And to help put that in perspective, that's basically 781 square miles of farm ground that is being taken out of production," Murdock stressed.
"And, of course, the worst problem is this is happening during a very plentiful water year. We have the reservoirs [that] are completely full, and when I mean full, they're dang near breaking. The rivers are running as high as they possibly can. Just trying to keep those dams from breaking," he added.
The Idaho Groundwater Appropriators, which represents agricultural, industrial and municipal ground water users across southeastern Idaho, described the order as the single largest curtailment of water use in state history. It would result in the drying up of hundreds of thousands of acres of farmland and could cost the state hundreds of millions of dollars in economic losses.
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The farmers are being fined $300 per acre and many are already filing bankruptcy.
Government agencies are deliberately destroying our farmers and food supply.
From X:
@WallStreetApes
I Hope This Makes The Idaho Water Shutoff To Farmers Real For People
🚨 Idaho is fining Farmers $300 PER ACRE for using water
Farmers are already declaring bankruptcy
Here are 2 farmers from eastern Idaho who have just received their water shutoff orders
“We just got our curtailment letter from the Idaho Department of Water Resources and they’re telling us we have to shut our eight wells off.”
“Shut our water off?”
— “They want us to shut our water off. — They want us to turn our wells off.”
“The reservoirs are full, yet we’re being told we cannot water 500,000 acres of crops”
“Thing. If you decide that you’re just gonna keep watering, they’re going to fine you $300 per acre. Well, if you’re just growing a crop like hay, it doesn’t make $300 an acre. You’re just gonna lose money on that.”
“you look on the curtailment paper it’s not just farmers it’s commercial businesses.”
They give lots of details about the water shutoff order (see video)
They talk about more locations being effected and what the result of that will be:
— “They want to shut off just in Bingham County. So Bingham County grows more potatoes than any other county in the state and just in Bingham County there’s $1.3 ish billion dollars spent in the county. And if that water was curtailed, it would reduce the amount of money spent in the county by three to $400 million.
So you wouldn’t just be putting out, you wouldn’t just be putting farmers out of business, you’d be putting people who deliver gas out of business, people who sell groceries, you’d be putting all the equipment people out of business, the repair, the repair men, the service men.
We just had people coming out, working on our pivots and stuff. You’d be putting all those guys out of business, which would hurt everyone”
“Trucking companies would go out of business. Yep. You have a lot of guys who have storages for potatoes. All those guys, they would no longer be getting rent for their potatoes. It would just devastate the entire Idaho economy.”
“There’s already guys, there’s already local farmers who’ve shut their wells off and their fields have already dried up because of this curtailment order and they’re going to be out millions of dollars they’re going to end up declaring bankruptcy and if the farmers declare bankruptcy the banks that finance the farmers are going to declare bankruptcy and then the whole economy is just shot. It’s literally going to destroy the Idaho economy.”
“We gotta get this thing spreading like wildfire to make sure everybody knows about this. Because like it or not, it’s gonna affect everybody.”
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Govtard regulators don’t care about the lost farmland or people starving. Ain’t their department.
I suppose the questions are: Who’s running this clown show and what is their justification of water curtailment for an obvious significant portion of their states economy.
Doubly curious because eastern/southern Idaho’s snowpack numbers are very high. Up north, not so much, but that’s not where these farmers are.
From what I understand the one company that is not restricted on water use and has been given permission to operate 24/7 is a cobalt mining company.
I can’t find the article that discussed that issue but it’s mentioned on a video in this reddit thread.
the state of Idaho and the Idaho Department of Water Resources
So local entities, not feds?
Imported leftists from CA/WA?
Can the legislature stop this madness?
One could very well deplete the ground water supply.
While the rivers are flooding.
Putting private business out of business, so the government can take it over.
They are doing it in the Netherlands they want control
Water curtailment order lifted for farmers in East Idaho
https://www.kivitv.com/news/magic-valley/water-curtailment-order-lifted-for-farmers-in-east-idaho
So...find alternatives. Pump directly from reservoirs, rivers, lakes, etc. I know that sounds expensive, but...
If the issue is groundwater depletion, then find a way to use surface water.
This plan, to bankrupt farmers, is not a plan at all. Much more like a diktat from the overlords.
the water-lords are complaining
Everyone I talk to from Idaho is conservative. How do they end up with outright communist regulations?
California, here I come...
I’m confident every dictator in has used starvation of their subjects to some degree to control their subjugated population.
Once government at any level exceeds a certain size it becomes a threat to those it’s supposed to serve. In other words it becomes more and more focused on itself at the expense of its host. If left unchecked it will be not unlike a form of metastasized malignancy threatening the very life of its host. Government at every level needs to be drastically downsized.
I don’t know how this is happening in red Idaho, but, WEF has stated numerous times they want to end farming...this is a great start.
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