per said:
Scottish accent :? Not many have time to deal with these incidents anyway. Walk away is a good strategy. As I was trying to figure out if that was an accent, I noticed that your avatar reads "Northern Nebraska Sandhills". Got me to wondering, how much of Nebraska is Sandhills? Are the corn growing areas sandy or loamy or clay? How plentiful is the ground water?
Itsh jusht my shpeech impediment :wink: as I thought about "sugar, shooting, shouting, or shutting my eyes and shying away from the situation.
What are the Sandhills?
The Nebraska Sandhills is a unique area, both in size and appearance. Native grassland covers 19,600 square miles of wind-deposited sand dunes. Its geology makes the area rich for wildlife, water and ranching.
The Land
19,600 square miles
Largest sand dune formation in America
95% grassland
1.3 million acres of wetlands
1 billion acre-feet of groundwater
2.4 million acre-feet of spring-fed streamflow discharged annually
The entire state of Nebraska has 77,421 square miles, so the Sandhills represents about one fourth of the state's area. The Sandhills region also extends for a few miles into South Dakota all along the border.
Ground water is very plentiful. Our "ace in the hole" is the fact that we sit on top of the Ogallala Acquifer.
The Ogallala Aquifer, also known as the High Plains Aquifer, is a vast yet shallow underground water table aquifer located beneath the Great Plains in the United States. One of the world's largest aquifers, it covers an area of approximately 174,000 mi² (450,000 km²) in portions of the eight states of South Dakota, Nebraska, Wyoming, Colorado, Kansas, Oklahoma, New Mexico, and Texas. It was named in 1898 by N.H. Darton from its type locality near the town of Ogallala, Nebraska. About 27 percent of the irrigated land in the United States overlies this aquifer system, which yields about 30 percent of the nation's ground water used for irrigation. In addition, the aquifer system provides drinking water to 82 percent of the people who live within the aquifer boundary.