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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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Its current offerings include 83 acres of almond trees in the San Joaquin Valley, advertised as “an opportunity to invest in a water-secure almond orchard in the world’s most productive almond-producing region.” ” AcreTrader streamlines the process of investing in valuable farmland across the U.S.

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