Have the day you voted for.
How nice, alfalfa should not be farmed especially at this scale
Yeah, as far as I’m concerned, exporting alfalfa is just exporting water
Alfalfa is a great crop. It has deep roots which store carbon in the soil, it is drought tolerant, it’s high yielding and it’s nitrogen fixating meaning it improves the soil quality and does not require nitrogen fertilizer which normally is a huge carbon footprint. Overall fantastic crop if you need fodder for ruminant animals. The big problem is farming it on an absurd scale in the middle of the damn desert. Alfalfa does not require irrigation in regions with ample rainfall.
How can alfalfa, which is known to be among of the most water-intensive crops be drought-resistant?
Drought resistance refers to whether the plant can survive droughts. it does not necessarily refer to the plants yielding well under drought. However if the plant is still yielding, it could even become more profitable as other plants stop yielding. The deep roots of the plant help it under drought, as the Soil drys top to bottom. Plants that have deeper roots maintain access to water, while the top is already dried out.
To try a poor metaphor: Someone who is 2m tall but short-sighted will still see better in a crowd than someone who is 1.60m but has the best eyes in the world.
https://www.canr.msu.edu/news/managing_alfalfa_during_drought
Ah, so even if it needs a lot of water to produce maximum yield it can still survive in diminished form with less water than most plants? Interesting. TIL.
Alfalfa is drought tolerant compared to other forage legumes like clover. This means that during drought the alfalfa will fare better and also yield better than clover or a grass like Timothy or blue grass. However as you can see pasture is also on that list you linked. Fodder crops are harvested for their entire biomass above ground and the amount of biomass is very large. It’s a very productive crop and makes a lot of fodder and this fodder is mostly water. Therefore it takes a lot of water to grow. The water required is not extreme in any way however and where I live alfalfa is a rainfed crop that only very rarely has any water deficiency symptoms. The extreme amounts of water applied to alfalfa in the south east of the USA is only because of the desert climate there. Growing beans, corn or potatoes there also requires insane amounts of water. If potatoes were chiefly grown in the desert southeast you bet you would see news articles going around about how terrible potatoes are. In the end it’s only a matter of matching the right crop to the right climate. Even the most water hungry crop on earth will not require irrigation in the most rainy place on earth.
And not at all in the middle of the Sonoran desert, in and around a city of 5 million people, where water is a limited resource.
Phoenix has plenty of water to suit the population if it’s used wisely. Alfalfa is not a wise use of water.
Unintended consequence of sl helping the environment and water table while leopards eat some faces.
Oh no! Not the Trump supporting farmers!
Good. Alfalfa is right up there with almonds as one of the most wasteful crops in existence.
No alfalfa stands alone. Stop peddling nonsense.
Almonds are the single most wasteful crops in terms of water usage, regardless of how you measure it. Less water is wasted on the entirety of pig and chicken farming combined, than is wasted on almonds.
Alfalfa is awful, almonds are pointlessly, ridiculously bad.
Try farming sigmasigma
What is the reference?
Alfalfa-> alphaalpha-> sigmasigma
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Water my sugma
Oh noes. Oh well! ¯_(ツ)_/¯ Moving on. Something about leopards and faces.
Schulz says he voted for President Donald Trump and believes in the goals of his tariff plan, to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and expand exporter access to foreign markets.
That’s a shame. ANYWAY . . .
Crushed alfalfa anyone? Anyone?
“In the long run…” so he’s still onboard. Let him ride the failure train to financial ruin. Maybe then he’ll learn.
Same here as well https://lemmy.dbzer0.com/post/42564197
he’ll learn
Think I found your problem right there
I don’t think I care if he learns
Schulz says he voted for President Donald Trump and believes in the goals of his tariff plan, to bring manufacturing back to the U.S. and expand exporter access to foreign markets.
“In the long run I think it will be a good thing," He said.
Dude’s face has been eaten and he’s still supporting the leopards.
Because this time, the Con in charge will surely help you out. Surely this time. Surely.
Put on your clown noses, you dipshits. You will keep voting for them despite their obvious track record for being BAD FOR THE FUCKING ECONOMY.
Good thing Trump saved you from all the awful foreigners dragging America down tho right?
Make sure to keep voting for the GOP farmer bob.
He will, because HitlerPig will bail him out.
I honestly don’t think they will get help this time. JD Vance is invested in AcreTrader and what’s a better way to buy thousand’s of acres for pennies on the dollar than to bankrupt farmers? And at the end of the day, I really don’t think they deserve a bailout.
I agree with you 100%, but HitlerPig did bailouts the last time around, and it kept the famrers on his side, so he’ll do it again. Nothing like paying people off to keep their loyalty. In fact, it worked so well last time, that he may be engineering the same scenario this time, just so he can pay them off again, and remind them of it before the next election.
Oh, who am I kidding? There won’t be another election.
It already happened.
ECAP will help agricultural producers mitigate the impacts of increased input costs and falling commodity prices.
I’m calling it now, that aid package does not have Trump’s approval, he will not sign off on it, or find a way to slap it down.
Super water users now angry their right wing fuckers no longer care specifically about them
Yeah I’m honestly counting this as an absolute win for the planet.
That’s the point. Trump wants you hopeless so you’ll sell your land to his billionaire buddies.
