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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago

"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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cyrano@lemmy.dbzer0.com to Leopards Ate My Face@lemmy.worldEnglish · 2 months ago
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'It could break us': Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market
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Alfalfa hay is mainly used as feed for cattle and is big business in Arizona, with Arizona farms exporting over $100 million of alfalfa overseas a year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28499504

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    Good. Alfalfa is right up there with almonds as one of the most wasteful crops in existence.

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        Almonds are the single most wasteful crops in terms of water usage, regardless of how you measure it. Less water is wasted on the entirety of pig and chicken farming combined, than is wasted on almonds.

        Alfalfa is awful, almonds are pointlessly, ridiculously bad.

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