Industrial agriculture on the Great Plains began in the 1950s when mechanized pumps and sprinkler irrigation systems allowed trillions of gallons of water to be pulled each year from the Ogallala ...
The areas above the aquifer were the center of the Dust Bowl in the 1930s and the water in the Ogallala has been tapped for human and agricultural ... Kansas, Nebraska, New Mexico, Oklahoma ...
After that, the invention of the center-pivot sprinkler remade agriculture ... Among the Ogallala states, Nebraska is an exception. Two-thirds of the aquifer’s water lies beneath the Cornhusker ...
RED FLAG WARNING WILL EXPIRE AT 8 PM CDT THIS EVENING FOR WIND AND LOW RELATIVE HUMIDITY FOR MOST OF SOUTH CENTRAL NEBRASKA AND NORTH CENTRAL KANSAS... Wind speeds have decreased across the area ...
Calling the Ogallala Aquifer “critical to the viability” of agriculture and maintaining historic economic growth, Kansas Governor Laura Kelly delivered the summit’s opening remarks by ...
The Great Plains are home to some of the largest cotton and wheat harvests in the United States. The eight-state region is also home to the country’s biggest cattle ...
The Ogallala Aquifer is not just a natural resource, but it made the economic life of western Kansas possible. Nathan Hendricks is an agricultural economist for Kansas State University.