If ever there was an article that should have been vetted by a farmer, this is it. While interesting and well-written in general, a farmer see the holes, such as. "Josh Proctor tended the rows of tiny shoots poking from his cornfield at all hours of the early summer night, picking his way through the dark to check on irrigation channels easily choked by trash and weeds in a season of unusually abundant rainfall." One doesn't irrigate tiny shoots of corn with gravity flow irrigation. The corn has to be tall enough to not drown. Then there is this, which even a city person should have thought through: "He had spent the winter using borrowed tractors to plant corn, alfalfa and wheat on about 300 acres." You don't plant crops in the winter in Colorado. I do thank the writer for trying to get the word out. Just a little more attention to detail would have helped.