Utah is planning on taking water away from farmers and ranchers right now”

They are currently writing new legislation that is going to put new regulations on farmers and ranchers water use — We need your help. We need to save the farmers and ranchers”

“The verbiage in the bill is that they are going to require them to use less water, water that has been already granted to them from generations past, or they're going to require them to use more water saving technologies. But who is going to pay for that? It sure as hell isn't going to be the legislators, it's not going to be the senators, it's not going to be the governor. It's going to be the taxpayers and the farmers and ranchers who are going to have to equip for this.

So right now we need your help. We need you to call all of the state senators, we need to call all the city offices, we need to send as many emails as we possibly can. Leave the farmers out of this bill. There should be no reason that they're included in this whatsoever —- So if you guys can please make the calls, please send the emails. We need your help.”

‘The Utah farmers and ranchers truly need your help. We barely have enough water as it is to raise our crops to feed and grow our animals. If there is any more regulation, we will lose more and more and more of our family farms and ranches. They will not be able to survive this. This is just a stepping stone and if it happens in one place, it will continue to happen all across the nation please if you can share with your family and friends please leave your comments below. We need your help.”

Farmers and ranchers work hard to preserve the land. It is in their best interest to have a balanced ecosystem. Politicians in suits have no idea what is best or how to manage the land.

Utah is trying to choke out the very people who grow our food while pretending it’s sustainability.

Utah has placed Data Centers as a priority over farmers & ranchers. To government, spying on Americans is more important than feeding them

They're stripping generational water rights from farmers while dumping billions into green scams and foreign handouts.

You get year round varieties of fruits and vegetables. The alternative is having nothing but potatoes and root vegetables during the wintertime.

If you don't have enough water, you'll have no choice but to get used to the alternative.

Water management is crucial out West, especially with the state of a lot of the aquifers.

If you live out West and you're not trying to shift to less water-intensive agriculture by this point, you're dadgum foolish.

My.family has raised cattle.since 1731 on land granted from Philip.V in what was at the time New Spain.. I assure you that people way cactus raised cattle all the time. Nearly every cow that makes it to a feed lot was pasture raised for most of its life. You.absolutely can raise cattle on cactus and finish them the last few weeks on grain and I would.challenge someone in a blind test to pick out which was cactus range raised vs sagebrush range raised vs oak mesquite savannah raised vs bunch grass rangeland raised. If you corn finish it doesn’t matter where the cow was ranged on. I speak with nearly 300 years of cattle people in my bloodlines and a half steer in two very large freezers in the second garage from same land and the fam.

For pure grass fed beef which is a totally different product you still can range them on burnt off paddle cactus and finish in pasture with trucked in bales and range cubes. Agave makes fine silage you have to limit access or they will.get bloat as it’s so sweet. It’s literally agave syrup sweet. During dry years most South Texas ranchers burn off paddle cactus for their cattle to eat its standard practice.

You can also coppice mesquite to make “tree hay” or run a hydroaxe through it and make piles of ground up tree bits cattle will tear up either once the spines are ground up gone. The beans of mesquite are also high in protein but to much >50% of feed intake of mesquite beans but not leaves or branches is toxic to cattle but goats can chow down at will same for damn feral demon hogs they tear into mesquite beans once they drop. You hydroaxe’em before the beans have time to develop and feed the piles of tree bits to the cows in a year you have coppiced mesquites with groups of stems ready to be cut again and again on a one to three year rotation. Mesquite makes damn fine honey too the beans are edible by humans and taste like roasted soybeans when cooked.

I would wager in Texas grocery stores a good bit of the cattle that makes it out of the feed lots near Lubbock where raised on cactus,oak,mesquite range lands in South and West Texas and for sure ate paddle cactus for part if not most of their lives on said range lands.

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