As snowpacks shrink, the Dry Farming Institute in Oregon is teaching farmers how to get by with less irrigation.
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Winters in western Oregon tend to be cool and rainy. But summers are usually very dry. So many farmers in the region irrigate their crops. And much of the water they use comes from rivers that are fed by mountain snowpack.
But as the climate warms, that snowpack is shrinking.
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