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Originally Posted by oil pan 4
You must have never been to new mexico or west texas where the heat is so intense it will fry seedlings. Rain fall varies between 3 to 25 inches per year and thats only what I have seen in the last 10 years.
What works on the east coast don't work out here.
Soil management is no substitute for water.
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I've been to both. Farming doesn't make sense there - period. When everything required for crops to grow has to be provided artificially it is a sign that plants crops weren't meant to grow there.
We should be farming productive land and raising livestock on marginal land. Instead we use productive land to raise crops to feed to livestock.