Despite that, the district is working hard to deliver water to two large farming operations and numerous small ones along the Pecos River. They are giving us the water we are entitled to. That's all they can do. They can't guarantee the quality of the water. Alfalfa is one of the crops that thrives on the salty water after new plants are established.
Small farmers grow it for their animals and some grow it for custom feeders.
There are fields that have been there for the last 20 years, but those fields are not very clean. I couldn't call it Grade A feeding material. Canals that deliver water to the fields are in better shape than they have been in a long, long time, said Garcia. We have acquired our own motor grader, which we use to keep up the canals. That used to be farmed out to contractors like Roy Lindsay.