Hayes Kelman

Earliest memory of farming probably would be sleeping on the floor of a combine while my dad drove the combine through the field and harvested corn or wheat.

I started watching how...

Certain wells were just dropping off significantly, how we were removing a sprinkler from a certain area of land because we didn't have enough water.

The hydrologists and geologists, they've figured out what amount of water we can pull from the aquifer to become stable.

Because it does have a recharge rate.

Everything we do is for our kids and for the future.

How does that affect the town that I grew up in?

Our economies are based around agriculture.

And irrigation is a massive part of that agriculture.