It is likely that 80 percent of these small operations could fail this year if families are unable to farm. Kandra, one of two growers suing federal agencies, is spending time on the farm planting cover crops and doing limited pest control. He and many other growers are working to find water for this year by drilling and seeking water transfers. We are working on activities to get national attention to this issue. That's the priority, to let everybody know that the United States can inflict this kind of action.
Nobody is safe.
Kandra said he is unsure at this time if he will proceed with an appeal, but is discussing options with his attorney. We will proceed in some form or manner but it doesn't look very good. The plan is to get water as we go through the appeal. The 1,400 farms in Siskiyou and Modoc counties in California and Klamath County in Oregon, were homesteaded, in part by veterans of World War I and World War II at the special invitation of the United States government. Veterans were enticed with the promise of rich irrigated land in which they could farm and raise a family.