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Environment
fromLos Angeles Times
1 day ago

As Arizona groundwater disappears, an agricultural giant agrees to use less

Major Arizona dairy agreed to stop irrigating 2,000 acres within 12 years and pay $11 million to fund well replacements and emergency water.
fromFortune
4 months ago

In Minnesota, 'dairy princesses' take home a 90-pound butter bust of their own heads

Thorson, a 20-year-old from the town of Waverly, was crowned as the 72nd Princess Kay of the Milky Way on Wednesday night. And her first official duty as the goodwill ambassador for the state's 1,800 dairy farm families was to bundle up and sit in a rotating glassed-in studio at 40 degrees F (4 Celsius) as fairgoers gathered to watch Kulzer turn a 90-pound (41-kilogram) block of salted butter into art.
Agriculture
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