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Edited by Gerrod Martinez

[@zanjero]

Being in the water biz I love seeing other Irrigation Districts, cool show!

[@lstone.09]

Awesome video Trevor. 🚜🚜🚜

[@devomx3027]

Interesting to see how it works in Buckeye. Thanks to your family for allowing you to make content that informs others of different farming practices. I farm in the Columbia Basin of WA State where we get our water from the Columbia River via the Bureau of Reclamation. Utilizing mostly pivot irrigation as well as drip/subsoil, wheel lines, handlines, and siphon tubes. The dams also along the river creating hydro electric power providing electricity for residential and multiple industries. Irrigation efficiency has greatly improved since the start of the Columbia Basin Project from flood irrigation to pivots applying water to the fields as well as minimizing wind erosion along with better farming practices and equipment. I read an article stating Arizona is cancelling Fondanonte’s water permits? Are they going to restructure and come to an agreement on new ones? Activists and government want to remove some dams on the Columbia up here. Our area has become a home for large tech companies and data centers because of cheaper power, tax breaks, and lower land prices than that of what they would pay on the west side of the state.

[@douglindley179]

We are installing long crested weirs in our canals they are less maintenance over time and control water levels just as good as the new over shot gates

[@marklindquist2494]

Our ditch company installed an o obermeyer gate that is pneumatically operated and automated by direct stream readings and the ditch rider can make changes by his phone. I was also wondering about rotational crops but I am now assuming it is sudan grass that you rotate with alfalfa.

[@TwoTone98Z71]

Looks like you need linear pivots. So much more efficient for an area that probably needs to conserve water

[@chichard86]

1st to like! I enjoy and learn lots from your videos! Thanks Trevor!

[@goodguygto]

Hey Bales Hay Farm and Ranch!, hope you had a great Thanksgiving weekend!! ???👍👍✌️

[@MB93WP]

We have canals in central Nebraska that they use for irrigation and one town has a hydro turbine set up on the canal for power

[@rodneyespinosa7455]

if there wasn't enough water they would quit planting houses!!!!💯😡

[@ericpryce7311]

I would love to come down and see your operation.

[@ericpryce7311]

Next time I'm in Arizona I will stop by

[@charlesmcdade9722]

Good show

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Glad you enjoyed it

[@TimMai-tf5pc]

Interesting water info. I was wondering what is lost to evaporation.

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Not much.

[@stevenfekete1682]

Do you lose any topsoil when the crop is small? What about compaction? It's interesting to see how things are done elsewhere.

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Some top soil. Especially at the bottom, or where the water flows fast.

[@turfie63]

Holy Smoke's. Sounds like the Geezer strip. Hope you are okay. 92 % Irrigation efficiency is really good, we try for 75% if we are lucky.

[@jandyg]

Bales Hay Farm and Ranch! You sell to Farms and Ranches. Doesn’t have to mean what you raise? Thanks for another great video. BTW: Millennial Farmer is an Actor and a Golfer, and he doesn’t have any of that in his Title.

[@mrfix3474]

Are the canals ever empty? Our water shuts off in the fall. I believe we have been empty since early October. Making changes on ours is complicated by bureau of reclamation we have some we would like to put underground and getting permission is a problem

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

2 weeks in the winter. I’ll do a video on it.

[@jefferysmith5280]

Good job i would have pointed out the bird to lol

[@russellingram3284]

Hey do you have zanjeros that take care of the water or is it self served?

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

We do! Those guys keep everything running.

[@ajskab99]

NY and NJ both have incentives to keep land in agricultural use and will pay if you’ll keep your land in agricultural use. Does AZ have anything like that?

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

It’s the opposite. They want ag to not use water. We do get tax breaks.

[@ajskab99]

@@BalesHayFarmandRanch sorry, I was talking about you purchasing that land not about your water irrigation. I think Farming Fabricating and Fixing’s family dairy was able to do that. And One Lonley Farmer said the family farm he’s purchasing was going to do that also.

[@mattmoneypenny]

Did I hear you correctly, that rented field would be $80k per acre to buy? That’s freaking crazy

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Yep.

[@richardradawetz8788]

Seed rows vs broadcasting with the brillion

[@orlandochacon9253]

Aren’t most of your gophers flooded out/controlled by the flood irrigation?

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Nope, they create pockets that water cannot get to.

[@sblead6910]

"Bales Hay Farm and Feed"

[@ickabod545]

15:46 Is there usually trash floating in there like that?

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Sometimes.

[@ickabod545]

@@BalesHayFarmandRanch I thought after I asked..I'm sure it's impossible to stop stuff from blowing in there.

[@davidmicalizio824]

Is there wastewater at the end of the field?

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Waste to me, yes. We paid for that water, and now it’s gone. Wasted, no. It goes to the next irrigation district and they use it. And then another district after that.

[@davidmicalizio824]

@@BalesHayFarmandRanch thank you.

[@Bubapug]

Squirrel x 5

[@johnwarwick4105]

So when you use the siphon tubes why don’t you spread them out over the width of the field rather than all in one place washing the soil away 🤷‍♂️ turbines in the water to power the electronics, surly with all the sunshine you guys get you would just have a small solar panel, no wonder they are expensive

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

They want to combine them with solar panels. The turbines however, create more electricity. My guys are lazy and don’t spread them out.

[@marklindquist2494]

I have flat fields also and if you spread the.tubes out.they want to dry up before moving down the field. You need a good concentrated slug of water to get it to carry down the field.

[@TwoTone98Z71]

Looks like you need linear pivots. So much more efficient for an area that probably needs to conserve water

[@BalesHayFarmandRanch]

Funny you say that. My buddy has a center pivot and he uses the same amount of water and loses acres to the corners. Our system is very efficient. The run off we have goes to two other districts after us. It’s a very nice and efficient system. I can see how it does not seem that way though.

[@TwoTone98Z71]

@@BalesHayFarmandRanch impressive. My field here at my house the pivot made me have water longer in the year and my yields have increased at least 30%