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r/NewMexico • u/huntersbounty • 1d ago
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All I see is wasted water for a crop that no one needs and the Rio Grande dried up for half the year as a result.
27 u/Pretty_Inspector_791 1d ago A tremendous amount of water from the Pecos goes to alfalfa production largely sent to Texas hobby horses. 10 u/elephantsback 1d ago That's bad, too. But that doesn't make flood irrigation of pecans good. Multiple things can be bad at the same time. 3 u/Pretty_Inspector_791 1d ago Indeed. 6 u/Spoonbills 1d ago Quit eating horrendously wasteful beef and pecans are no longer a problem. 8 u/elephantsback 1d ago The last time I ate beef was 1991. I apologize for not quitting sooner. Also, water from the Rio Grande isn't going to grow alfalfa down here. It's going to grow useless pecans.
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A tremendous amount of water from the Pecos goes to alfalfa production largely sent to Texas hobby horses.
10 u/elephantsback 1d ago That's bad, too. But that doesn't make flood irrigation of pecans good. Multiple things can be bad at the same time. 3 u/Pretty_Inspector_791 1d ago Indeed.
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That's bad, too.
But that doesn't make flood irrigation of pecans good. Multiple things can be bad at the same time.
3 u/Pretty_Inspector_791 1d ago Indeed.
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Indeed.
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Quit eating horrendously wasteful beef and pecans are no longer a problem.
8 u/elephantsback 1d ago The last time I ate beef was 1991. I apologize for not quitting sooner. Also, water from the Rio Grande isn't going to grow alfalfa down here. It's going to grow useless pecans.
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The last time I ate beef was 1991. I apologize for not quitting sooner.
Also, water from the Rio Grande isn't going to grow alfalfa down here. It's going to grow useless pecans.
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u/elephantsback 1d ago
All I see is wasted water for a crop that no one needs and the Rio Grande dried up for half the year as a result.