With drought, climate change and overuse of the Colorado River leading to increasingly dire conditions in the West, the federal Bureau of Reclamation is looking at fallowing as a way to cut water use.
That means idling farmland, with payments to major users to make it worthwhile. That has farmers primarily in California's Imperial Valley and Arizona's Yuma Valley weighing the possibility. Many are reluctant.
"Farming is just like any other business," Brierley said. "They've got capital invested, they've got employees, they've got markets for their products. You can't just farm part of the time and not the rest." A measure of how much Reclamation is willing to pay came in a separate offer made to farmers in Lower Basin states — Arizona, California and Nevada — for $400 per acre-foot.
"It is certainly a business, but they also see it as doing a lot of good for the entire nation with what they grow out there in Yuma," Buschatzke said.
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