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Should We Be Farming in the Desert?

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Yet carrots, cauliflower, sweet onions, honeydew, broccoli, and alfalfa all grow here, incongruous crops that spread across half a million acres of cultivated land. Ronald Leimgruber farms 3,500 of those acres. This approach also involves turning away from planting on marginal acreage that is not ideal for crops.

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