“Record rainfall in September brought most us nearly up to ‘normal’ annual precipitation levels, greened up the rangeland, but the rain came so hard and fast that much of it ran off,” reads part of the introduction to the upcoming New Mexico Organic Farming Conference.“ Acequias were damaged and fields were buried in sediment. And we’re still desperately short of water in the rivers and dams. Without good snowpack this winter, we face exceptional irrigation shortages in 2014.” The above words set the tone for the 2014 conference, which is scheduled for the weekend of February 14-15 at the Marriott Pyramid North hotel in Albuquerque... greenfiretimes/2014/01/farming-in-the-new-age-of-drought
Posted on: Fri, 31 Jan 2014 05:37:50 +0000
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