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'Adapt or die': Farmers in western Kansas consider alternative crops to save water [View all]
https://hayspost.com/posts/b8f02d53-ef45-4721-9427-514fe88adc71GRAY COUNTY — In dry western Kansas, the sound of artificial rain spraying from center pivot irrigation sprinklers fills the spaces between the small towns.
Irrigation has turned this region into a productive agricultural powerhouse, churning out millions of bushels of grain.
Heath Koehn farms with his dad near Montezuma over the Ogallala aquifer that supplies farmers with irrigation and communities with drinking water. He knows that changes are coming to the way they farm.
“Changes are going to have to be made with that aquifer. It’s like adapt or die,” Koehn said.
Irrigation has turned this region into a productive agricultural powerhouse, churning out millions of bushels of grain.
Heath Koehn farms with his dad near Montezuma over the Ogallala aquifer that supplies farmers with irrigation and communities with drinking water. He knows that changes are coming to the way they farm.
“Changes are going to have to be made with that aquifer. It’s like adapt or die,” Koehn said.
They get to be the first to experience the death of the Ogallalla, but they won't be the last.
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