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Yes, it's pretty bad. Around Bend, where I live, there isn't a ton of 'serious' agriculture. Lots of hobby farms and some alfalfa operations, but the climate i
by davidw 3y ago
Yes, it's pretty bad.
Around Bend, where I live, there isn't a ton of 'serious' agriculture. Lots of hobby farms and some alfalfa operations, but the climate isn't really conducive to growing a lot. We're just a bit too high up to reliably grow many things commercially.
Further down the Deschutes river, in Jefferson county, there are a lot of real farms that produce much more important crops ("Approximately 55% of the US domestic market carrot variety seed production is grown in Jefferson County").
Guess who has more water rights?
- s0rce 3y agoI like the carrot honey from the carrot seed producers. Pretty unique to eastern Oregon as most places have cross-pollination with varieties to grow carrots for seed and the places that grow carrots for carrots don't get flowers so they don't produce honey.
- kolanos 3y ago> ... but the climate isn't really conducive to growing a lot. We're just a bit too high up to reliably grow many things commercially. Didn't you answer your own question here?
- tcmart14 3y agoOur water in Central Oregon does help to grow things though. One of our biggest water sources is snow melt, which get transported down a canal to farms in southern Oregon. So even though water locally may be used for any serious farming locally, it does get used for serious farming water down stream.
- davidw 3y agoThe canals go around central Oregon, but not to southern Oregon. Cool to see someone else from Bend here though!
- tcmart14 3y agoHere in Bend also! There is also a lot of water that gets used up out on the East side of Bend on Old Deschutes Highway for ya, pretty much hobby farms for Horses.