{"id":4521,"date":"2020-03-02T11:01:25","date_gmt":"2020-03-02T18:01:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/nau.edu\/school-of-informatics-computing-and-cyber-systems\/?p=4521"},"modified":"2020-07-30T16:33:38","modified_gmt":"2020-07-30T23:33:38","slug":"fallowing-cattle-feed-farmland-simplest-way-to-alleviate-western-water-shortage-fewsion-based-study-finds","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/fallowing-cattle-feed-farmland-simplest-way-to-alleviate-western-water-shortage-fewsion-based-study-finds\/","title":{"rendered":"Fallowing cattle-feed farmland simplest way to alleviate western water shortage, FEWSION-based study finds"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"size-uncropped-large wp-image-4523 aligncenter\" src=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/wp-content\/uploads\/Ben-Ruddell-maps-768x293-600x229.png\" alt=\"\" width=\"600\" height=\"229\" srcset=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/Ben-Ruddell-maps-768x293-600x229.png 600w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/Ben-Ruddell-maps-768x293-e1583171977367-150x57.png 150w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/Ben-Ruddell-maps-768x293-300x114.png 300w, https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/wp-content\/uploads\/sites\/299\/Ben-Ruddell-maps-768x293.png 768w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 600px) 100vw, 600px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>An important new study published this week in\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/www.nature.com\/articles\/s41893-020-0483-z\"><em>Nature Sustainability<\/em><\/a>\u00a0finds that irrigated crop production accounts for 86 percent of all water consumed in the western U.S.\u2014and of all the water used on western farms, by far the largest portion goes to cattle-feed crops such as alfalfa and grass hay. To alleviate the severe shortage of water in the region\u2014especially in the Colorado River basin\u2014the study\u2019s authors suggest that rotational fallowing farmland, leaving the land uncultivated for a period of time, could be a simple and affordable means of dramatically reducing water use in the region.<\/p>\n<p>Study co-author and principal investigator\u00a0<strong>Ben Ruddell<\/strong>, who is director of Northern Arizona University\u2019s\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/in.nau.edu\/school-informatics-computing-cyber-systems\/\">School of Informatics, Computing, and Cyber Systems<\/a>, leads the\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/fewsion.us\/\">FEWSION<\/a>\u00a0project, a multi-institutional team effort launched in 2016 and funded through the National Science Foundation (NSF), to assess the nation\u2019s\u00a0food, energy and water systems. <a href=\"http:\/\/news.nau.edu\/fewsion-water-shortage\/#.Xl1EHahKhaR\">Read more.<\/a><\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An important new study published this week in\u00a0Nature Sustainability\u00a0finds that irrigated crop production accounts for 86 percent of all water consumed in the western U.S.\u2014and of all the water used on western farms, by far the largest portion goes to cattle-feed crops such as alfalfa and grass hay. 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