Well you are off by a factor of three on your estimate for rice, and water has to be put on at the right time so rain that doesn't fall on schedule is counterproductive. it takes roughly the same amount of water for the rice crop as it does for irrigated panhandle corn, maybe a tad less for the rice.CanyonAg77 said:And acre-inch is 27,154 gallons, I was figuring about 12 inches a season for corn, so let's double that for rice, 24 inches, so a square mile of rice (640 acres) would take about 400,000,000 gallons per year.rab79 said:I won't tell you how much water it takes to grow an acre of rice then.CanyonAg77 said:rab79 said:
To be fair, 3,000 acres of irrigated corn in the Texas Panhandle uses about that much. And there are about 1,4 million acres of corn in the Panhandle.
About 190K acres of rice in Texas. But, rice probably gets a lot more water from rain, than does Panhandle coen.
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in order for democrats, liberals, progressives et al to continue their illogical belief systems they have to pretend not to know a lot of things; by pretending "not to know" there is no guilt, no actual connection to conscience. Denial of truth allows easier trespass.