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"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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"It could break us": Valley farmer says Chinese tariffs have crushed the alfalfa export market

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Alfalfa hay is mainly used as feed for cattle and is big business in Arizona, with Arizona farms exporting over $100 million of alfalfa overseas a year.

cross-posted from: https://lemmy.world/post/28499504

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It sucks to suck … water indiscriminately from finite aquifers to produce food to ship across the globe to feed beef cattle.

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