They did the same thing here 10-12 years ago. Long time course is now cattle pasture. Now the city wants a new golf course. We go and do the boundary for the company that is going to run the course and they give a big hubub about how popular golf is, but my thought is "If it were so popular, why on Earth are there cattle grazing on our old course?!". Anyhow, you golfers out there, are courses in high demand? I have an uncle in N. Florida that was churning these things out left and right in the late 90's and early 2000's but he told me the other day they've done about 5 courses in the last 10 years! I don't see the demand, but then again, I ain't chasing no white ball around either...
Pasture pool, watch out for the exploding balls of s***.
I know this is going off topic...again.
Coming to a field near you...I know for a fact that in the near future (in Calif.), you will see 40 acre patches of solar panels in the vicinity of power substations. Solar panels are an acceptable use for land that is governed by the Williamson Act.
If ONLY we would focus on power storage rather than power generation or consumption!
There is plenty of power out there, the inability to store/recover the power efficiently is what is holding us back.
Biggest waste of prime real estate-golf courses and cemeteries. But, I play golf and don't plan to die anytime soon, so............
Most every golf course I know of in NE Texas has a lake or two on them and don't use public water system to irrigate.
I used to play golf every day during tournament play and enjoyed it very much, then I got a JOB.............
B-)
imaudigger, post: 334808, member: 7286 wrote: I know this is going off topic...again.
Coming to a field near you...I know for a fact that in the near future (in Calif.), you will see 40 acre patches of solar panels in the vicinity of power substations. Solar panels are an acceptable use for land that is governed by the Williamson Act.If ONLY we would focus on power storage rather than power generation or consumption!
There is plenty of power out there, the inability to store/recover the power efficiently is what is holding us back.
I didn't realize that solar was acceptable within Williamson Act. That's good to know. Do you perchance have a link to a specific ruling/finding/legislation on this?
Also, yes, we need battery storage improvements badly. I know that Tesla Motors is working like crazy on them, so hopefully soon there will be something coming out on the market.
And, to finally address the original post, I've read (from various sources) that it takes anywhere from 600 to 4,000 gallons of water to end up with a pound of ground beef. I imagine that the high number comes from the "doom and gloomers" and the low number comes from the "don't worry, we're fine" camp. In any case, agricultural usage can be very rough on water consumption. And in California, a big agricultural state with very, very little water, this matters.
That just came up in conversation the other day...a quick google come up with this..
http://www.conservation.ca.gov/dlrp/lca/Pages/SolarUseEasements.aspx&apos ;">Solar Use Easements
No comparison. Livestock ranging on that area would use a minute amount compared to watering greens and other areas of a golf course
Not sure about this but isn't there a plastic/rubber sheet under the greens that collects irrigation & rain water and diverts them to the ponds for using them again for irrigating the grass? If that were the case, wouldn't the water be polluted from cow urine & waste?
surveyorsam, post: 334667, member: 10176 wrote: Some golf courses being turned into farms here in Michigan too
There's one just outside Paris, Tennessee that is now a tobacco farm.
The critical factor is that everybody must eat and that food does not magically appear in the stockroom at Mega Low Mart out of thin air. Nobody MUST play golf. Today's world is too hung up on the here and now. The food chain extends for decades. One example is the pecan tree. It takes approximately 20 years from the planting of the seed until a fully producing tree is helping to stock supermarket shelves. There will be limited production in earlier years but it is not economical production until about 20 years. Cut off the necessary ingredients for healthy, continued growth any time during those two decades and production may be zero---permanently. Wheat is about a year from planting to being processed into food. Corn is more like six months. Pigs and chickens go from birth to plate in a few months. For cattle, that is a minimum of two years. The difference is that range livestock live off what would largely go to waste otherwise in order to provide food to go to everybody else's waist.
Holy Cow, post: 335066, member: 50 wrote: ...The critical factor is that everybody must eat and that food does not magically appear in the stockroom at Mega Low Mart out of thin air...
I'm pretty sure people would be really shocked how quick the shelves at the A&P could dry up; I bet in some cases a day or less. This time of the morning I'm usually watching the farm report...I learn something new everyday. It beats the typical "who stuck a pistol in guess who's face last night" or the guess what Donald Comb Over did BS.