Dollars and Drops

“It’s the chicken or the egg. Money drives conservation on my farm, or maybe conservation drives money,” says producer Tommy Young. “It doesn’t really matter to me because every day, I see irrigation conservation and money working hand-in-hand.” The challenge of balancing profit and conservation is a consistently mounting consideration for U.S. agriculture. Although water is a path for savings and sustainability on many operations, growers sometimes leave the vital resource partially unharnessed.