CSU researchers show promising results from first year studying the viability of pairing winter peas with water conservation payments.
CSU researchers show promising results from first year studying the viability of pairing winter peas with water conservation payments.
A few miles north of downtown Fruita, not far from the winding, overburdened Colorado River, Professor Perry Cabot oversees a research program at Colorado State University’s Western Colorado Research Center in the Grand Valley with two goals top of mind: How do we consume less water, and how do we keep agriculture profitable while doing it?
“To me, the outcome of my research program needs to achieve both of those goals,” said Cabot, who specializes in irrigation and water management issues. “Otherwise, all I’m doing is trying to solve one problem while making the other problem worse.”
Recently, Cabot, who runs numerous projects on the research farm, has found something that appears to fit his two tenets well: winter peas.
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