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I mean surely the product is dried before shipping. /s It's still a problem, but we need to keep in mind that maybe we shouldn't be farming so much animal feed
by undersuit 3y ago
I mean surely the product is dried before shipping. /s
It's still a problem, but we need to keep in mind that maybe we shouldn't be farming so much animal feed in general. We'd still lose this water if we kept the feed local.
- lolinder 3y agoAlfalfa is still 20% water by weight when shipped. So yes, a lot of it stays, but not all.
- tzs 3y agoThat 20% is just what fraction of the shipped alfalfa is water. It doesn't tell you anything about how much of the water used to grow the alfalfa stays. If you used a 1000000 kg of water to grow alfalfa, you'd get around 25000 kg of alfalfa (which would contain 5000 kg of water and 20000 kg of other stuff). So for every 5000 kg of water that is in that alfalfa when shipped around 995000 kg of water stays.