Saturday, September 4, 2010

Texas Tech

On Friday my last visit in the US was to Texas Tech University in Lubbock. One of the highlights of the whole trip actually. Basically in a nutshell - Texas uses a huge amount of bore water to produce cotton, corn and sorghum. The corn and sorghum help feed around 40% of the US cattle feedlots which are located here. Thats a lot of cows.
The university are conducting research as to how they can reduce water use yet maintain production. They are comparing a typical system of continuous cotton v's a pasture, sorghum, lucerne rotation all done under sub-surface irrigation. See the lines in the pasture from the drip lines.

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