Imperial Valley Farming
On our third day of shooting, we were going to Bombay Beach on the Salton Sea. I asked my friend to stop if we had a good view of some haystacks. Its been a long time since I've driven through this area and I don't remember there being some much hay being produced. I looked online and cattle and hay are the two most types of farming done in this area.
Imperial Valley grows the most hay and cattle in the state of California and it shows when you drive through the countryside. We saw a feed lot with a capacity to hold 80,000 head of cattle crammed into the corrals. It was crazy how little space they had to even move. Well, the cattle have to eat and you have thousands of acres of alfalfa being grown. Along with the fields of hay, you have miles of canals like this one bringing water to the plants. Kind of hard to believe this is a desert area.
Imperial Valley Farming
On our third day of shooting, we were going to Bombay Beach on the Salton Sea. I asked my friend to stop if we had a good view of some haystacks. Its been a long time since I've driven through this area and I don't remember there being some much hay being produced. I looked online and cattle and hay are the two most types of farming done in this area.
Imperial Valley grows the most hay and cattle in the state of California and it shows when you drive through the countryside. We saw a feed lot with a capacity to hold 80,000 head of cattle crammed into the corrals. It was crazy how little space they had to even move. Well, the cattle have to eat and you have thousands of acres of alfalfa being grown. Along with the fields of hay, you have miles of canals like this one bringing water to the plants. Kind of hard to believe this is a desert area.