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Harvesting Hay on a Wet Meadown, Nebraska

Ogallala Aquifer water underlying a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska produces a lush crop of hay. These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface. Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table. These draft horses are pulliing the hay up the inclined stacker to the top of the haystack.

Filename
Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220208.jpg
Copyright
Jim Richardson
Image Size
5100x3360 / 11.8MB
*CONCEPTS *SUBJECT Climate change Great Plains Ogallala Ogallala Aquifer agriculture anthropocene aquifer arid climate environment groundwater resources water
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WATER: Ogallala Aquifer
Ogallala Aquifer water underlying a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska produces a lush crop of hay.   These meadows, where the Haythorns annually put up 1700 stacks of hay using their horses, are said to be "sub-irrigated" by the water table near the surface.  Springs form wherever any little dip reaches the water table. These draft horses are pulliing the hay up the inclined stacker to the top of the haystack.