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Missouri | All good points. I think I heard about that Saudi alfalfa farm. I understand everyone has opinions on this issue. I am not defending nor promoting our irrigation out here. I will add one more. We pay $100 an acre in taxes on irrigated land. I have never done the math on how much property tax is extorted from us because of irrigation but I promise you this state, every school, every library, every courthouse, every community college, every fair, fire department sheriff department, every single entity that leaches off our property tax would go broke at least everywhere outside Lincoln and Omaha. Every single last one. As an example our local school gets not 1 single dollar from the state. 24% comes from the town and the businesses. 76% come from all these irrigated acres. The courthouse took $300,000 off this farm last year. I did not make 10% of that. Think of that... the courthouse made 10 times as much money on MY FARM as I did. My taxes are more than my land payments! If we lose the ability to irrigate, our land values will drop by 90%. I promise there will not be enough money or people left to fill up memorial stadium. Hey there is another reason we can't lose our irrigation... what would we change the name of the cornhuskers to? We were originally the bug eaters. I always kind of liked that.
Edited by badjaccs 9/19/2016 20:38
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