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73 <br />1 Nobody in that country understands <br />2 alfalfa. If you irrigate it too much, you drown it. <br />3 Once it is drown, it's dead. So if they force you <br />4 and say, Okay, I've got to go out there and you've <br />5 got to go irrigate this thing -- we change our side <br />6 rolls side twice a day. We work seven days week. <br />7 It's gravity fed. We do not take any days off <br />8 whatsoever while our seasons are active. <br />9 And if you drown alfalfa and you <br />10 don't listen to the farmer just a little bit, <br />11 there's got to be -- NRCS will tell you. They'll <br />12 even write you a letter that you have to have <br />13 flexibility and let the farmer do what they've done <br />14 for -- my daddy did it before me. <br />15 And you've just got to allow them to <br />16 have some flexibility in there because you drown it, <br />17 it's dead. Alfalfa is tolerant to dry conditions, <br />18 you know, but to real wet conditions, you start -- <br />19 once it's drown, it's drown. <br />20 And then you have your grasses start <br />21 coming in, and they grow all by themselves, and they <br />22 just show up everywhere. And then you have a <br />23 problem because your production drops. <br />24 And that's another thing. On <br />25 production is Western -- we had real high production <br />