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The water in the Ogallala aquifer is worth billions of dollars to western Kansas, but it’s rapidly disappearing. And it's been a challenge to find ways to slow the depletion.
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Farmers Trying To Save The Ogallala Aquifer Face Tension From Peers, But Their Profits Are ImprovingIrrigation practices are changing, partly because of economics and partly because of a cultural shift among farmers on the High Plains.
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To conclude our three-part series on how gardeners new to our region can overcome reduced water access, today's installment of Growing on the High Plains…
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Welcome to High Plains Radio Readers Book club, an on-air, on-line community of readers exploring themes of Water and Replenishment in our Book Club…
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Technology made it possible to develop the Ogallala aquifer and turn the High Plains region into the nation’s breadbasket. William Ashworth describes this…
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Ogallala Blue: Water and Life on the High Plains, by William Ashworth, is a High Plains Public Radio community read. The book chronicles the development,…
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Thanks to timely rains last year, Mount Hope-area farmer Jeff Winter figures on some of his fields he pumped half the amount of water that he normally…
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Hello, Radio Readers! We’re talking about John Nichols’ Milagro Beanfield War as the first book in our 2017 Spring Read, Water and Replenishment. Set in…
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Welcome to High Plains Public Radio Readers Book Club, an on-air, on-line community of readers exploring themes of common interest to those who live and…
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Ag research has done a lot for the High Plains, but it’s not getting the recognition it deserves, according to a senior irrigation engineer at Texas A&M…