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"They do get plenty of fertilizer, lots of irrigation. And they have a lot of drainage through their soils, and at this time, we're not seeing that much, we don't know whether that's going to be part of this mix or not," he said.
This winter, the area was one of the best ever for rainfall since the wet season ended. With the help of the federal government, nearly half of the irrigating farmland, or $1.6 billion a year, was now fully irrigated. In 2012, the government received more than $1 billion.
In the summer of 2011, rainfall in Poughkeepsie was at a record low of 29 percent. By mid-2013, when Sandy struck again, it dropped from 30 percent to 24 percent. The year before, there were only 23 percent of irrigated land available in the state in January.
"I think we are seeing growth here in general," Daley said. "The amount of soil that it's growing is really strong."
But according to the U.S. Agriculture Bureau and other federal agencies, the increase of irrigated land will not offset the damage it may cause to public health. The bureau estimates that about 2 percent of the state's irrigated farmland sits within a state border of Washington state.
"If one side gets the bigger portion of the drought, it will
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