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New York Times: Three generations of Al Kalin’s family have worked their 2,000 acres of carrots and sugar beets, wheat and alfalfa for almost a century in the Imperial Valley, a scorching swath of Southern California desert that was unfit for farming until water from the Colorado River was diverted here in 1901.
But now Mr. Kalin and his brother enjoy a choice that their parents and grandparents never had. They can continue to farm all their land, or they can stop farming some of it and earn more than $500 an......
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Precious Waters: To Get Water to Cities, California Farmers Paid Not to Plant
Posted by Washington Post: Juliet Eilperin on October 24th, 2011
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