I am very pro farming, however of  you follow the aquifers in the mid west, they have been shrinking back for years and years.  As the aquifers drop, they have well drillers drill even deeper to get water, which further depletes it. Ag  has switched to pivot and drip technology, however they have found (according to the accounts I read) that it doesn't recharge the different aquifers.    So not immediately but in 5 to 10 years the farmers and people that live in the mid west fill face even greater difficulty's.   In the meantime, the theory seems to be to just keep kicking the can (water issues)  down the road and hope that it isn't your generation that has the problems.

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