Poorly Written Article
Too many inaccuracies to list, though the main one is the premise that no irrigation = dust bowl. If that were true, Happy would already be in the middle of a dust bowl.
Second worst is the premise that Happy is dying because the decline in irrigation. It is a part of it, but the stores were put out of business years ago by the big chain stores in nearby towns. And mechanization means that it takes only a fraction of the farmers and farm labor it took to farm the land 50-70 years ago.
Too many inaccuracies to list, though the main one is the premise that no irrigation = dust bowl. If that were true, Happy would already be in the middle of a dust bowl.
Second worst is the premise that Happy is dying because the decline in irrigation. It is a part of it, but the stores were put out of business years ago by the big chain stores in nearby towns. And mechanization means that it takes only a fraction of the farmers and farm labor it took to farm the land 50-70 years ago.