By Fiona Graham, BBC News
“Water availability is gradually declining. Even 30 years ago we had probably twice as much water as we have now.” Glenn Schur has been farming for 30 years. His father first moved to the plains around Plainview, Texas in the late 1940s, and after graduating from college Mr Schur returned home to work on the farm he now owns. Almost half of the property’s 1,800 acres are given over to cotton production, the rest is divided between grain sorghum, wheat, seed crops and livestock. Times are hard for Texan farmers. The state is in the grip of a severe drought, and there has been no rain in Plainview for nearly a year.
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