The Texas panhandle’s dairy industry is raising questions about water usage, and it has everything to do with the nature of the business, according to Ryan Cody of KFDA News Channel. The large quantity of dairy cows in the high plains is something relatively new.
“Going back 15 years you’re getting to where it was just starting to develop here in the panhandle. There’s always been some dairy production but nothing like it is now,” says Darren Turley of the Texas Association of Dairymen.
And that’s raising questions about how to better preserve one of the least renewable resources we have.
“We will see less water going towards irrigation of crops and more water proportionally being used in the dairy and cattle feeding industry,” says agronomist David Bauer.
