On Wed, 19 Sep 2001 11:43:31 -0500, Carrol Cox wrote:
>The Great Plains should be
>grass only, with limited grazing stock so that the grass needed no
>irrigation, etc. etc. etc.
On a practical level, are you suggesting that the government should
pass a law to this effect? Kick out farmers who refuse to leave?
Most of the Great Plains does not need irrigation to produce crops with
enormous yields, year after year. There are many problems such as
overuse of insecticides and herbicides, and topsoil erosion, but we
shouldn't stop farming the land for those reasons.
Andrew Hagen
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