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LOR Foundation Invests Over $500,000 in Innovative Water Projects Led by Western Farmers and Ranchers

Posted on May 18, 2023 By P.C. editor
LOR selects 61 projects submitted by farmers and ranchers that explore innovative approaches to using water in agriculture.

LOR Foundation Invests Over 0,000 in Innovative Water Projects Led by Western Farmers and Ranchers
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DENVER, May 18, 2023 (Newswire.com) - The LOR Foundation has selected 61 projects for its Field Work initiative, investing $538,802 into water-related agriculture projects led by farmers and ranchers. 

Earlier this year the foundation launched Field Work, a research initiative to source innovative approaches to using water in agriculture in the West. Through Field Work, farmers and ranchers in rural parts of Colorado, Idaho, Montana, New Mexico, and Wyoming were eligible for up to $10,000 to implement innovative water projects on their land (think: improved water efficiency, water reliability, water quality, crop yield or crop diversification, and labor efficiency). The goal: Get money quickly into the hands of the people in the field and on the ranch who have the potential solutions.

LOR received more than 250 proposals from producers across all five states. Their innovative projects revealed some important trends among Western farmers and ranchers: the need for more and better pipes, nozzles, and gates to move water efficiently; investment in technology-enabled methods of supplying—and monitoring—remote or hard-to-access areas with water; a growing interest in how soil amendments like wool, fungi, and biochar can improve water retention and soil health; a return to holistic and Indigenous methods of catching, retaining, and spreading water (e.g., earthworks, water planting, underground greenhouses), and more. 

"We believe that those closest to the problem often have the best solutions," says Alex Dunlop, LOR's chief business development officer. "Farmers and ranchers in places like Monte Vista, Colorado, and Questa, New Mexico, have creative solutions to water challenges. Field Work is a chance to help them put those ideas into practice and learn from them."

Ultimately, LOR selected 61 projects, which will get underway this spring and summer. These projects are led by the experimenters, tinkerers, innovators, and iterators who—while Western states agonize over how to resolve antiquated water compacts—have been finding ways to eke out a living from the land. They're people who have a vested interest in finding ways to use water more effectively, for their own operations and for the good of the West. 

They're people like Michael Lobato, a Colorado School of Mines engineer-turned-farmer, who for the past three years has been rehabbing a five-acre farm outside of Fruita, Colorado. Lobato thinks injecting biochar—which is extremely porous—deep into the soil, rather than using it on the surface level, will improve the drought tolerance of hay and grasses and significantly reduce agricultural water consumption across the West. Interestingly, he's planning to inject it using a piece of machinery previously used for sports turf.

Ultimately, LOR hopes research projects like these—led by the people who best understand the challenge—reveal solutions for using water efficiently to grow food and sustain thriving communities in the West while in the grip of desperate drought.

Learn about the 61 selected Field Work projects at lorfoundation.org/field-work.

Contact Information:
Kasey Cordell
Communications Officer
[email protected]
720-202-2356


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