USDA Looks At Irrigation Ag Nationwide

Some of the numbers from USDA’s latest look at irrigation and water management within agriculture. 
 
“There were 212,714 farms and they irrigated 53 million acres.  It was down a little bit from 2018, where the survey showed that there were 231,000 farms with close to 56 million irrigated acres, so down 8% in total, farms irrigating and about 5% for acres irrigated,” noted Julie Weber with NASS.  Continue reading…