“Unless somebody comes up with something better, it’s the cash crop...it's the best crop for us to raise' - About two-thirds of all water diverted in Utah goes to growing hay.
“He came home after World War II,” Laub said, “come out here and developed the farm from sagebrush.”“Basically a matter of economics,” Laub explains. “We had to have a cash crop.”
If we were to stop growing hay today, how many more houses could we water in Utah? Lozada says residential water use could increase six times.“And so the price system doesn't work for water in agriculture,” Lozada said. The Laub family hauls their chopped hay to a production facility near Beryl. The alfalfa is compressed into cubes – sort of like a hay bale the size of a saltshaker.
“We're close to three-acre feet now to raise the same crop that we raised four-acre feet earlier,” Laub said. “There are other states who have looked at this and adopted their laws to recognize a way to incentivize,” Lewis said.
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