On 5/24/2015 3:43 PM, sf wrote:
> On Sun, 24 May 2015 12:22:46 -0600, Cabrito del Bosque
> > wrote:
>
>> Because, much like the pecan, they're water hogs - 8 gallons per nut.
>
> Almonds only need a little more than a gallon per nut and there are
> worse water hogs, like broccoli.
> http://www.businessinsider.com/amoun...-tomato-2015-4
>
> Some farmers are turning to "dry farming" with good results.
> http://agwaterstewards.org/index.php...s/dry_farming/
>

You are right, and my data was bad.

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcaria...17-column.html

Maybe it was last August, when the Atlantic posted "The Dark Side of
Almond Use," implicating the tasty little nut in every environmental
crisis from bee colony collapse disorder to the struggles of the state's
Chinook salmon population.

Or maybe it was in February, when a headline in Mother Jones blared, "It
takes how much water to grow an almond?!" (Profoundly misleading answer:
1.1 gallons per nut.)




On the dry farming, one hybrid idea - couple it with focused drip
irrigation.

That feeds individually, rather than flood or channel irrigation.

We've sen that deployed at many of the pecan orchards.