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California drought is ready for a Silicon Valley moment – and futuristic farms
Posted by Guardian: Nicolette Hahn Niman on March 25th, 2014
Guardian: We are ranchers. And as ranchers in Northern California, we are intimately familiar with the impact of a drought as extreme as the one we are enduring right now – and how it affects the food you eat.
You’ve heard about the shorter showers, the intermittent toilet flushing. You’ve heard less about the expensive hay, being fed to fewer animals. But have you heard about the innovations that could reverse it all?
Indeed, how familiar are you with California’s water crisis, the worst in recorded...