Our co-host David Woodruff has Brandon Roland from Hemingford, Nebraska on today's interview, let's listen in.

"I got my degree in Agriculture Communication and mainly I did it that way. I would sit there with my advisor. And they go, well, what do you want to learn about it? I go, well, I got a lot about soils this month there. Like, can we just change it up? Like, let's do some business. Let's do some cattle. But I thought that was the whole point of college. I wanted to have a wide range. So, psychology courses, psychology courses, and communication courses. And the whole thing that everybody argued with was, well, communication said, well, it's how it's communicated to you. Sociology said, well, it's how society communicated to you. And psychology always said, well, it's what your brain is meant to be. And I would just laugh like taking the different courses. Like the older I got in college where I'm like, we're all arguing about the same thing. It's just the information of, well, why are you taking the information in? And I get that's the one thing I'm glad I took all those classes. But one thing I always realized with college, it's all right, well, we can backtrack and figure out what's true information, what's BS information, what's proven."

That was Brandon Roland from Hemingford, Nebraska with our co-host David Woodruff.

Our co-host David Woodruff has Brandon Roland from Hemingford, Nebraska on today's interview. Let's listen in.

So what's going on down there?

"We're dry Dave. We are bone dry. We missed all the fires. The Morill fire, we've been on the outside of it. But we got a little bit of a shower yesterday, and I don't think there was three, four drops out of it. Last week, Dave, we got a tenth of an inch on there. And I think by the time it came on the ground, it was done afterwards. We just desperately need rain. And when I've been talking to the other guys up North, down South, we're all kind of in the same boat. We don't get moisture. I don't know what we're going to do, especially right now. Dry land farming. We desperately need moisture."

So is there much irrigation in your area?

"There's a lot of irrigation, but the price of everything, guys are worried. You can't afford to put it in. And then the price of the fuel or electricity costs. Yeah, you're going to be spending a lot of money there. During the winter as well, Dave, I'm a potato inspector, potato certification of Nebraska. And we've graded out a lot of potatoes, but there's not a market for them anymore."

That was Brandon Roland from Hemingford, Nebraska with our co-host, David Woodruff.

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Water is a very important resource, and many times farmers get blamed for high usage.

Did you know that Utah gets about 61 million acre feet of precipitation every year? "Over 92% of that goes right back into the natural systems, trees, rangelands, wetlands, and evaporation. Human use, all of it, is just a tiny sliver. Farmers steward most of the diverted water, sure, but their net consumptive use after return flows is only about 2.5 to 3.3% of the state's total water. They're not draining Utah dry, they're feeding families, supporting rural economies, and keeping productive land working."

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