[dmbche]

"The district and its farmers emphasize that they keep a steady stream of broccoli, lettuce, onions and other produce on American dinner tables, including in the dead of winter. But only a few families used a majority of the water they got to grow food that people eat."

It's mostly used to make hay to feed livestock

[randomdata]

In other words, it is used to grow food that people eat?

[cratermoon]

> it is used to grow food that people eat

Yes, but in a hideously inefficient way. "Of the calories that cattle eat in feed, humans get a measly 3 percent in the beef we eat."

"livestock-centric U.S. agriculture—viewed by many as the pinnacle of efficiency—actually feeds fewer people per hectare, 5.4, than the less meat-focused Chinese, 8.4, or Indian, 5.9."

https://www.smallplanet.org/single-post/2016/11/10/meat-madn...

[randomdata]

Feeding people hay is much less efficient than that.

[cratermoon]

Have you considered the possibility that there are other food crops that can be grown, and using much less water?

[randomdata]

I have no reason to consider something off-topic, no.