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<blockquote data-quote="oil barron" data-source="post: 2303312" data-attributes="member: 1858"><p>Grass grown as a green manure / soil conditioner before being disced down to grow carrots. I'm sure the dairy farming neighbors must look at this in disgust when they can't get water to grow fodder.</p><p></p><p>Some pictures from the blue sky endless horizon farms of the former Tulare lake bottom. The scale is mindblowing. This was once the largest fresh water lake west of the missisipi but has been conquered by damming the Kings and Kawelah rivvers and now grows cotton; wheat; seed alfalfa and Safflower. The soil is obviously very good being a former lake bottom; but there is an impermeable layer of clay below. They say that they won't grow permanent crops here (Almonds; Pistachios and Citrus) as there is the potential to flood again; but there looked to be some pistachio orchards going in now. The farms here are all a ridiculous size; as they need to be to be able to conduct the necessary hydraulic engineering and they have to allow certain areas to flood in a heavy snow melt year. This photo was taken on the Hansen ranch which is a paltry 15,000 acres. They are crofters compared to their neighbor J,G Boswell who farms 130,000 acres. Flood irrigation is used to manage the salt.</p><p></p><p>Although the farms are huge the attention to detail is awesome. From the carefully parked machine yards with 50 cotton harvesters in a dead straight line; to sending out squads to hand rouge any weed areas. They say that John Deere developed Greenstar specifically at the request of Boswell.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="oil barron, post: 2303312, member: 1858"] Grass grown as a green manure / soil conditioner before being disced down to grow carrots. I'm sure the dairy farming neighbors must look at this in disgust when they can't get water to grow fodder. Some pictures from the blue sky endless horizon farms of the former Tulare lake bottom. The scale is mindblowing. This was once the largest fresh water lake west of the missisipi but has been conquered by damming the Kings and Kawelah rivvers and now grows cotton; wheat; seed alfalfa and Safflower. The soil is obviously very good being a former lake bottom; but there is an impermeable layer of clay below. They say that they won't grow permanent crops here (Almonds; Pistachios and Citrus) as there is the potential to flood again; but there looked to be some pistachio orchards going in now. The farms here are all a ridiculous size; as they need to be to be able to conduct the necessary hydraulic engineering and they have to allow certain areas to flood in a heavy snow melt year. This photo was taken on the Hansen ranch which is a paltry 15,000 acres. They are crofters compared to their neighbor J,G Boswell who farms 130,000 acres. Flood irrigation is used to manage the salt. Although the farms are huge the attention to detail is awesome. From the carefully parked machine yards with 50 cotton harvesters in a dead straight line; to sending out squads to hand rouge any weed areas. They say that John Deere developed Greenstar specifically at the request of Boswell. [/QUOTE]
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