It’s an export to Saudi Arabia IIRC. It’s basically a matter of agribusiness exploiting water rights laws intended to support yeoman farmers over a century ago to cheaply grow a shitty cash crop for export as IIRC horse and camel feed. They get to use functionally unlimited water for nothing/next to nothing and the state can’t stop them or even force them to pay its actual value (which would make the whole thing nonviable).
why alfalfa instead of literally anything else
It’s an export to Saudi Arabia IIRC. It’s basically a matter of agribusiness exploiting water rights laws intended to support yeoman farmers over a century ago to cheaply grow a shitty cash crop for export as IIRC horse and camel feed. They get to use functionally unlimited water for nothing/next to nothing and the state can’t stop them or even force them to pay its actual value (which would make the whole thing nonviable).
Wow! That’s really dumb!
Livestock feed to feed the livestock that also should not be raised in a fucking desert (or at all for that matter) because there is no grazing land.
Why not just feed them the soybeans china won’t buy
And have the cows go beta and woke?!
carnism and its consequences