0tterbot wrote:

without wanting to be offensive, afaict if they rely on water allocations
from govts when it's become clear that's not reliable in any way, they're
just not going to make it & there's nothing anyone can do about that.

Well, they have no alternative really. The government forces the area to
be irrigation. To be viable non-irrigation in that area, you would need
an order of magntude more land

It is just another government cock up in agriculture.

everyone benefits from a hardcore dose of completely new thinking,

That is the mantra they feed us, but it has never been true. Once again
they are screwing the family farms to the benefit of the rich. I've been
hearing this hollow ring for over 40 years.

Rest of your post is plainly wrong. This farm has been trying
alternatives for 30 years, but unless you start with money to burn or
are a stupid gambler, it is just irresponsible to risk everything.

Now I see that lemming is about to screw all our famers again by
allowing GM pollution into crops.