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Farming in Dry Places: Investors Continue to Speculate on Colorado Water

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Known as the Platte Valley Water Partnership , their unique arrangement would allow city dwellers and farmers and ranchers—who hold the most senior water rights in the West—to share the cost of several reservoirs and a pipeline. They are in the business of skinning dollars off of trading water.

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JD Vance Funded AcreTrader. Here’s Why That Matters.

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Some of the most pristine farmland in California can be yours, at least by proxy, in just a matter of minutes. farmland, makes to prospective financiers. AcreTrader is just one of many companies launched in the past decade that facilitate the sale of farmland, which has increasingly become a staple in investor portfolios.

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