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  • Wes Robbins, a Soil Conservationist with the SCS, tests soil moisture using a meter attached to burried gypsum blocks.  The block's conductivity varies with its saturation making the moisture testing possible.  Robbins has encouraged farmers in this arid region of eastern Colorado near Burlington to use the blocks so they can irrigate more effectively.  Robbins is in a low till field under one of the center pivot systems they converted to LEPA (Low Energy Precesion Application) water nozzles.
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  • Sandhill Cranes take off from a field along the Platte River, Nebraska.  Water levels in the Platte River depend on the High Plains Aquifer to maintain flow in the river.
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  • Celebrating windmills at Windmill Country Days in Hyannis, Nebraska.
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  • Earth Theater in Earth, Texas has been painted up real nice to make it look as if it is still in business.  Earth went from population 1512 to 1081 with the 2020 census.
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  • Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas is the World's Largest Hand-Dug Well.  Thirty two feet across and 109 feet deep.  Begun in 1887 by the railroad who abandoned it, at which time the town finished it and used for municipal water for many years.  Has been a tourist attraction for some 60 years.
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  • Dave Searle, project manager for Marathon Oil Company, takes water samples from the companies contamination cleanup site west of Sidney, Nebraska.  Hydrocarbons contaminated the groundwater here porducing benzene concentrations of as high as 150 PPB.  Without acknowledging that their natural gas plant caused the problem, Marathon Oil has undertaken to clean up the groundwater by pumping from 14 wells in the pollution plume and braodcasting the water through a cneter pivot irrigation system.  The Hydrocarbons evaporate into the atmosphere.  Searly is collecting water samples at ground level.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220104.jpg
  • Dust rises from a cattle feedlot in Kansas as cattle milling around kick up huge dust clouds.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220140.jpg
  • A crop duster plane flies over a packing plant settling ponds spraying insecticide to kill flies.  Wastewater from the packing plant comes to a series of lined ponds where it is treated and then used to irrigate land, thus assuring that it will not get back into the aquifer and pollute it.
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  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
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  • Two farmers were digging out this center pivot irrigation system just east of Portales, NM that has been burried in the sand for seven years.  In this area of sand hills combined with high spring winds (and no ground cover on fields) sand dunes can form very quickly.  This area still has good water.
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  • The Autumn Corn Festival in Haxtun, Colorado celebrates the areas agriculture by naming Crop Kings.
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  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220259.jpg
  • Mothers hold up their babies on the main street of Funk, Nebraska.  All these babies, aged about three months, in the tiny town of Funk (Pop. 218) had to get bottled water since the town water was so polluted with nitrates from nitrogen fertilization of corn that they would otherwise get Blue Baby Syndrome.  Funk, and about 30 other towns across Nebraska, had to supply bottled water to any families with infants under six months as long as the towns drinking water exceeds 10 PPM of nitrates.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220254.jpg
  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220247.jpg
  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220172.jpg
  • Sandhill Cranes gather on the Platte River and in surrounding fields and set meadows during their annual migration north.   The habitat essential for the cranes survival is a mutual product of the Platte River and the High Plains Aquifer.  Some half a million cranes come to this 40 mile stretch of the Platte creating a magnificent spectacle.  The Platte is intimately tied to the High Plains Aquifer, feeding it in some places, drawing water from it in other places.  Additionally the aquifer creates the wet meadows that are essential to the cranes because they feed on invertibrates there.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220178...jpg
  • Children at a special educational summer camp in Lincoln, Nebraska watch a demonstration using an aquifer model. As water is pumped around and "pollution" (colored water) is injected into wells or leaks from lakes they can see how groundwater pollution occurs and spreads.
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  • A father and son ride their tractor home after a day of work in the fields of their farm in Kansas.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220272.jpg
  • Sunset over irrigated fields in Kansas. This is an older center pivot system that was still spraying water in the air resulting in more evaporation.
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  • Down at the level of the aquifer Tom Fletcher dives in the Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas and holds up glasses that he found on the bottom.  The annual Big Well Treasure Dive brings Fletcher to the small town tourist attraction where visitors have been throwing in coins for 40 years from a platform just above the water.  The well is said to be the World's Largest Hand Dug well, being some 30 feet across and 109 feet deep.
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  • The Platte River in Nebraska is very shallow with main braided channels and sandbars, excellent habitat for Sandhill Cranes making their annual migratin.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220249...jpg
  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220171.jpg
  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220118.jpg
  • Out on his riding lawnmower to take a look at his irrigation well, 98 year old T.E. Lutrick swings a leg over the steering wheel to get a better look.  Lutrick has farmed here since 1920.  Put this well in in 1936 when  "Everyone thought I was crazy."  Got into irrigation to assure crops in bad years, a common early pattern.  One of the earliest irrigators in the Texas High Plains.  Colorful character.
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  • Center pivot irrigation systems have changed the geometry of fields throughout the American Midwest.
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  • A center pivot irrigation system watering alfalfa in Kansas, usually grown to feed livestock such as dairy cattle.
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  • Keepers from ther Lee Richardson Zoo in Garden City, Kansas take the elephants, Moki and Chana, for a swim in the World's Largest Free Municipal Cement Bottom Swimming Pool.  The pool was just closed for the season and since the zoo does not have a pool for the Elephants this is their one bath of the year.  Keepers in swimming with the elephants were Robin Neff and Nick McDaniel.  Up on the bank were Jeff Bullock and Dave Wade.  The Elephants are 10-year-old Africans and have been at the zoo for 8 years.  The zoo gets some 210,000 visitors a year.  On a previous day they had 3,000 people to see the elephants swimmin g.
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  • 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.
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  • A feedlot cowboy "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot, Ingalls, Kansas.  The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  This cowboy said he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots.
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  • Harold "JR" Hoskinson at the "riding the range" at the Ingalls Feedlot.  Hoskinson grew up on a farm 15 miles from this feedlot and spend a number of years cowboying (amongst other things).  Now he is the night watchman at the Ingalls Feedlot, part of the Irsik-Doll chain  of cattle operations. The innovation of feedlots was to bring the cattle to the feed and thus reduce labor and stress on the cattle producing higher profit margins.  Here you can see the central feed bins with the "alleys" designed for effecient feeding by special feed trucks.  Hoskinson says he likes being on the range better but the pay and benefits are better in the feedlots, which came in handy two years ago when he lost his voice box to cancer.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220258.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220187.jpg
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  • Wes Robbins with an irrigation system that was converted to LEPA.  Water can be seen being applied very close to the ground so that it does not evaporate.  The nozzles have four settings so that they can used to irrigate or chemigate, i.e. apply chemicals as well as irrigation water.  This particualr type of conversion is one that Robbins helped develop so that farmers can do it at about a third the cost of a commercial conversion.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220060.jpg
  • Thousands of fish lie rotting in the dry Republican River at the headwaters of the Harlan County Reservoir at Alma, Nebraska.  Republican always dries up in the summer as irrigation takes all the water, either through reservoirs for irrigation districts or by pumping the aquifer beneath the river.  Fish were killed when a heavy storm sent water down the river attracting the fish upstream.  Then the river dried up agains just as suddenly stranding the fish.  Fish kills are common along the Republican.  Area is under mandatory groundwater management because of declining supplies.  Nathan and Dave Wolf out to take a look.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220260.jpg
  • Carhenge is an incredible collection of old cars arrange in the precise shape of Stonehenge in the field outsdie Alliance, Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220193.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220185.jpg
  • Obsolete Irrigation System Junkyard, Texas
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  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
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  • Side Roll Irrigation System watering crop, Texas
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  • Protesting threat to Ogallala Water, Texas
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  • Irrigation System watering crop, Nebraska
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  • Water bubbles and gushes from a "Boiling Spring" on Birdwood Creek near North Platte, Nebraska in the Sandhills.  Water is welling up from the aquifer in the Sandhills.  In the vertical exposure of sand some 50 to 60 feed high above the spring you can see both water born sediments (below) and wind born sand dunes (above.)  In the background is Hydrologist Jim Goeke.<br />
Interstingly, the springs vary in the output depending on atmospheric conditions, dying down with high pressure and going wild with low preasure.
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  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220148.jpg
  • Down at the level of the aquifer Tom Fletcher dives in the Big Well in Greensburg, Kansas and holds up glasses that he found on the bottom.  The annual Big Well Treasure Dive brings Fletcher to the small town tourist attraction where visitors have been throwing in coins for 40 years from a platform just above the water.  The well is said to be the World's Largest Hand Dug well, being some 30 feet across and 109 feet deep.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220133.jpg
  • Big model of a Hereford cow at Beef Empire Days, Garden City, Kansas
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  • Children take a ride down Main Street in the shadow of the town water tower in Petersburg, Texas on their way to see thier babysitters mother at the local newspaper.  Petersburg, like many other High Plains towns has lost a lot of population.  They have tried to keep empty buildings torn down to keep main street looking better.  The lot where the kids are riding was a store at one time.  Petersburg has a population of about 1200.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220057.jpg
  • Dr. Robert Lascano doing research on soil moisture evaporation at the Texas A&M Research Farm north of lubbock.  Lascano has found that soil moisture evaporation is greatly reduced on ground that has wheat stubble left on it.  Cotton planted in the stubble (right of picture) is, on average, 3" higher than cotton planted in bare ground (left) because the added portection from wind and added moisture gave it a better head start.  (Plants and positioning were chosen to give fair representation of overall field conditions.  His stick is approximately 3" above lower plants.)  In foreground is sophisticated soil moisture meter.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220038.jpg
  • Wes Robbins with an irrigation system that was converted to LEPA.  Water can be seen being applied very close to the ground so that it does not evaporate.  The nozzles have four settings so that they can used to irrigate or chemigate, i.e. apply chemicals as well as irrigation water.  This particualr type of conversion is one that Robbins helped develop so that farmers can do it at about a third the cost of a commercial conversion.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220018.jpg
  • An approaching thunderstorm in the Sandhills of Nebraska brings rain and lightning bolts to the vast grasslands. Such storms dump water onto the porous sandhills, which store vast quantities of the High Plains Aquifer water.
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  • Obsolete center pivot irrigation systems piled up on a junkyard, remnants of older irrigation technology. New systems save water rendering the old systems uneconomical. The energy cost of pumping water from declining well levels makes it imperative to use the most water-efficient technology.
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  • Jean Mitchell holds her quilt of a windmill in the pasture near Kingman, Kansas where the real windmill still stands.  Mitchell, a nationally know Quilter from Lawrence, Kansas, remember the windmill and its surroundings from her youth when her father rented th pasture.  Her quilt is a tribute to the rural upbringing and the importance of water on the plains.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220266...jpg
  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220194.jpg
  • Cattle working contest for teams of "Feedlot Cowboys" and "Feedlot Cowgirls" from area feedlots at Beef Empire Days, Garden City, Kansas.  They have to "Doctor" three steers in shortest possible time. Beef Empire Days is the major celebration in Garden City, which owes its wealth to the beef industry which was made possible by the waters of the Ogallala Aquifer.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220131.jpg
  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220110.jpg
  • Octogenarian  Floyd Wright stands proudly in the midst of his crop of sunflowers.  Wright has farm here for 50 years growing sunflowers this year because they use less water, about a third as much as corn, and produce comparable profits.  He still plants corn though because government support programs do not cover sunflowers.  These are confectionary sunflowers, the kind you buy in bags to eat.
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  • Foggy morning at the Ingalls Feedlot east of Garden City, Kansas.  Cattle being loaded into cattle trucks, cattle in feelots, feed trucks coming out of the feed tower hauling hot steam flashed corn.
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  • Community Festival celebrates Irrigated Corn in rural Colorado.g
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  • Ogallala formation near the Visitors Center in Ash Hollow State Park in Nebraska.  The long tubelike structures under the overhang are rodent burrows from the time when the fresh sands of the Ogallala, just washed down from the Rockies, were the topsoil of the region.  The smaller stringy formations are insect tunnels.  Beyond the formations can be seen Ash Hollow, the route of the Oregon Trail and beyond that the valley of the Platte River.
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  • Draft horse on the Haythorn Ranch, Nebraska
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  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220167.jpg
  • Don Hundley inspects one of his antique windmills in his Windmill Hill Museum in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  Hundley has what is believed to be the largest collection of antique windmills in America, chronicling the rise of wind power on the plains to porduce water from the aquifer.  His collection sprang from the purcahse of one windmill.  Finally he found that the had 200 of them and sold off many duplicates and then built this barnlike museum to exhibit the best and most unique.  His collection inludes the only known restored model of the first patented windmill.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220132.jpg
  • Irrigation system watering corn in the Platte River Valley of Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220121.jpg
  • Low energy precision irrigation (LEPA) nozzles watering a field in Kansas. Such nozzles save water by applying wth water close to the ground, rather than spraying it into the air which can cause great losses due to evaporation of precious Ogallala Aquifer water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220114.jpg
  • Abandoned House and Hay Bales, Kansas
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  • Farm north of Lorenzo, Texas where farmer shut down the pump, took the wheels of the center pivot irrigation system and put the land into grass under the Conservation Reserve Program.  CRP pays farmers to plant marginal land back into grass and thus remove it from irrigation and the problems of wind erosion.  Amount of CRP land is limited in each county.  Many have already reached their limit.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220058.jpg
  • Windmills on the Watson Ranch north of Scottsbluff in the Sandhills of Nebraska are testaments to the precious nature of water on the Great Plains. This rancher erected seven windmills to pump water for his cattle in this Sandhills ranch.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220071.jpg
  • Ogallala Aquifer water springs forth from a wet meadow on the Haythorn Ranch in the Sandhills of Nebraska.   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.
    Ogallala_20220114_0030.jpg
  • 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.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220208.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220100.jpg
  • Farmers watch a new combine demonstration at Husker Harvest Days in Nebraka.  Farmers are intrested in seeing how well the combine gets all the grain, deals with clogging, and handles chaf.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220065.jpg
  • Children splash in a stock tank for watering horses on a hot day in Nebraska.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220102.jpg
  • Ronnie Dubois wrestles with the wheels off of old side roll irrigation systems stacked up in the back lot of Massey Irrigation.  These are the older, less efficient systems and Massey sells almost all of these outside the Ogallala area becuase they no longer are good enough for scarce water.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220046.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0042.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220101.jpg
  • Farmers watch a new combine demonstration at Husker Harvest Days in Nebraka.  Farmers are intrested in seeing how well the combine gets all the grain, deals with clogging, and handles chaf.
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  • Rev. Jim Miller of the United Methodist Church of Ord, Nebraska recreates the first circuit riding ministers church service on Anderson Island on the shores of the North Loup River.  Several of the church members were baptized in the river. The North Loup is one of the rivers fed by the aquifer in the Sandhills and thus flows at a constant rate year round and from year to year.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220108.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220115_0010.jpg
  • A center pivot irrigation system creeps across a field of corn in the Platte River valley of Nebraska. Corn is one of the biggest users of Ogallala (and High Plains) Aquifer water, most which either goes to produce ethanol or is used as lifestock feed in cattle feedlots.
    Ogallala_20220114_0040.jpg
  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220042.jpg
  • Don Hundley inspects one of his antique windmills in his Windmill Hill Museum in Scottsbluff, Nebraska.  Hundley has what is believed to be the largest collection of antique windmills in America, chronicling the rise of wind power on the plains to porduce water from the aquifer.  His collection sprang from the purcahse of one windmill.  Finally he found that the had 200 of them and sold off many duplicates and then built this barnlike museum to exhibit the best and most unique.  His collection inludes the only known restored model of the first patented windmill.
    Ogallala_20220115_0020.jpg
  • Cattle feedlots in Kansas bring the cattle closer to the grain that is grown using water from the Ogallala Aquifer. Such Confined Animal Feeding Operations (CAFO) can hold over 100,000 amilmals and the ares of southwest Kansas will have several million cattle in feedlots at any one time.
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  • The Autumn Corn Festival in Haxtun, Colorado celebrates the areas agriculture by naming Crop Kings.  This year, for the third year in a row, the Irrigated Corn King was Mark Gueck  He rode in the parade down main street with the other crop kings on a Soil Conservation Service float.  Here he is seen before the parade on the local Coop elevator float put together by a friend.
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  • Alfalfa hay in curving windrows is being baled on an irrigatted field in Kansas. Such irrigation of hay to feed cattle is a big user of Ogallala Aquifer water.
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  • Circles of fresh cut alfalfa follow the patterns of the center pivot irrigation system on a large hay operation near  Garden City, Kansas.  Agricultural production in the area grew up around increased irrigated production of grain and cattle feed.  Now the demands of the cattle industry have outstripped production and the area has become a net importer of cattle feed. Putting up hay in circular pattern because the center pivot leave deep ruts in a circular pattern making it more convenient to cut in a circle.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220107.jpg
  • Center pivot irrigation system in Kansas designed to save water from the Ogallala Aquifer. A "L.E.P.A." (Low Energy Precision Application) nozzle sends out streams of water close to the ground, thereby reducing evaporation by up to 50 percent or more.
    Ogalla Aquifer Camera Scans 20220061.jpg
  • A Nebraska farmer drives through irrigation water that was running across a road near his farm. Such runoff is waste of precisious aquifer water.
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  • Tresco Abbey Gardens in the Scilly Islands off the tip of Cornwall, in the UK.  Famed for its climate that promotes lucious growth, including palm trees.
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  • Tresco Abbey Gardens in the Scilly Islands off the tip of Cornwall, in the UK.  Famed for its climate that promotes lucious growth, including palm trees.
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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
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The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
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Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
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The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year.
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  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer.
    MM7753_20101030_42091.jpg
  • Local wheat varieties in test plants at the Ejere Farming Community Seed Bank in Ejere, Ethiopia. It was built by Ethio Organic Seed Action to help farmers regain traditional local varieties of grain that are better adapted to their location. Seed bank members donate seeds and in turn get seeds from the seed bank. Regassa Feyissa with EOSA is one of the founders and promoters of the seed bank and helps the local farmers. <br />
<br />
The big variety of wheat varieties are important to maintaining biodiversity in the crop and because of how different varieties respond to varying climate and weather patterns from year to year. <br />
<br />
Farmers seen in the seed bank with Regassa include Taddesse Retta, chair of the Farmer Conservator Association and Eshetu Badada, the treasurer. <br />
<br />
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Contact:  Regassa Feyissa<br />
Ethio Organic Seed Action (EOSA)<br />
eosa1@ethionet.et<br />
reg_fey@hotmail.com<br />
Tel: +251 11 5 50 22 88<br />
Mobile: +251 911 24 83 40<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
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Pinus radiata (Pinaceae) - Monterey pine; wikipedia: The Monterey Pine is widely used in private gardens and public landscapes in temperate California, and similar climates around the world. It is a fast-growing tree, adaptable to a broad range of soil types and climates, though does not tolerate temperatures below about -15°C. Its fast growth makes it ideal for landscapes and forestry; in a good situation, P. radiata can reach its full height in 40 years or so.<br />
interesting weblinks: http://www.conifers.org/pi/pin/radiata.htm
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  • Seed from the Kew Millennium Seed Bank collection at Wakehurst, outside London in the UK.  <br />
<br />
Pinus radiata (Pinaceae) - Monterey pine; wikipedia: The Monterey Pine is widely used in private gardens and public landscapes in temperate California, and similar climates around the world. It is a fast-growing tree, adaptable to a broad range of soil types and climates, though does not tolerate temperatures below about -15°C. Its fast growth makes it ideal for landscapes and forestry; in a good situation, P. radiata can reach its full height in 40 years or so.<br />
interesting weblinks: http://www.conifers.org/pi/pin/radiata.htm
    MM7753_2010-07-22_11681.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
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  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101026_38949.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.
    MM7753_20101026_38949.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
Sheko and Abigar and 31 of the Gurage were purchased from their natural habitats and introduced in to medium to high tsetse–trypanosomosis challenge area of the Ghibe valley<br />
<br />
Trypanosomiasis or trypanosomosis is the name of several diseases in vertebrates caused by parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus Trypanosoma. Approximately 500,000 men, women and children in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from human African trypanosomiasis which is caused by either Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. The other human form of trypanosomiasis, called Chagas disease, causes 21,000 deaths per year [1] mainly in Latin America.
    MM7753_20101026_37523.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.<br />
<br />
Sheko and Abigar and 31 of the Gurage were purchased from their natural habitats and introduced in to medium to high tsetse–trypanosomosis challenge area of the Ghibe valley<br />
<br />
Trypanosomiasis or trypanosomosis is the name of several diseases in vertebrates caused by parasitic protozoan trypanosomes of the genus Trypanosoma. Approximately 500,000 men, women and children in 36 countries of sub-Saharan Africa suffer from human African trypanosomiasis which is caused by either Trypanosoma brucei gambiense or Trypanosoma brucei rhodesiense. The other human form of trypanosomiasis, called Chagas disease, causes 21,000 deaths per year [1] mainly in Latin America.<br />
<br />
<br />
Contact: Woudyalew Mulatu<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
w.mulatu@cgiar.org<br />
Mobile: +251 911 40 91 89<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia<br />
  <br />
Contact: Shirley Tarawali<br />
Theme Director - People, Livestock, and the Evironment<br />
ILRI Ethiopia<br />
s.tarawali@cgiar.org<br />
Tel: +251 11 617 2221<br />
Tel: +251 91 164 5738<br />
PO Box 5689<br />
Addis Ababa, Ethiopia
    MM7753_20101026_37523.jpg
  • Sheko cattle being kept, protected and studied at the ILRI farm in the Ghibe Valley of southern Ethiopia. The Sheko are endangered with only about 2,500 known to be alive. Their are valuable for their adaptation to climates where they are resistant to diseases carried by the tsetse fly. ILRI is studing and breeding the herd.
    MM7753_20101026_38999.jpg
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