National Dairy Month: Texas Dairies Meeting the Challenge of Feeding the Planet While Saving Its Water

By Darren Turley
 
What liquid do dairy farmers perhaps love more than the milk they produce? The water that – in so many ways – makes it possible for them to produce that milk. But as Texans know, our state is in the grip of an epic drought, one that the state climatologist recently said is among the five worst in the past 500 years. Some of the driest areas are also home to many of our state’s 442 family owned
dairy farms. 
 
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