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Arizona’s alfalfa is essential, water crisis solution that leads to food supply issue is no fix

Guest Opinion//January 23, 2023//[read_meter]

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Arizona’s alfalfa is essential, water crisis solution that leads to food supply issue is no fix

Arizona’s alfalfa is essential, water crisis solution that leads to food supply issue is no fix

Guest Opinion//January 23, 2023//[read_meter]

Kelly Anderson shows how dry one of his fields is in August of 2022, in Maricopa. Anderson grows specialty crops for the flower industry and leases...

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