Sentences with phrase «irrigated farmlands»

It wants to start in the Rocky Mountains and wind its way 1,450 miles along the Arizona - California border into the Mexican delta, irrigating farmland and nourishing loads of wildlife and flora along the way before emptying itself into the Gulf of California.

Use the water to increase the amount of irrigated farmland eight times or more.

Last December, I flew to Phoenix, rented a car and drove two hours west on Interstate 10 to Blythe, Calif., a sun - baked town of 13,000 on the lower Colorado River surrounded by orange groves and irrigated farmland.

Not exact matches

«This is the blessing and curse of farmers in the American Midwest,» says Bill Patzert, a climatologist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory in Pasadena, Calif. «They're blessed with rich farmland and the rivers that irrigate it.

The thinking is that farmland there was irrigated with large pools of standing water that carried the parasite.

Among these are shifting from conventional tillage to minimum - till and no - till, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

Among these are the shift to minimum - till and no - till farming, the more extensive use of cover crops, the return of all livestock and poultry manure to the land, expansion of irrigated area, a return to more mixed crop - livestock farming, and the forestation of marginal farmlands.

Keep record of farm activities on a weekly basis that include seeds sown, land area ploughed, farmland irrigated, and animal births.