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VOLUME 29, NUMBER 6 / September 9, 2013

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TURTLE LAKE, N.D. — The federal promise of irrigation from the Garrison Diversion Conservancy District in North Dakota is finally coming true for farmers, promising economic activity. “There’s a pile of water in this canal,” says Steve Knorr, 37, the managing partner for K&T Farms, which has developed 4,000 acres of irrigated crops — mostly corn and edible beans — off the McClusky

Canal near Turtle Lake, N.D. K&T’s project is a sort of incubator project for what could be several similarscale irrigation operations along the canal. Knorr’s first crop was 600 acres in 2009. Under K&T Farms ownership, it grew to 2,200 acres in 2011, 2,800 acres in 2012, and now a total of about 4,000 acres in 2013, where he expects it to stay.

Turtle Lake, N.D., project is irrigation incubator

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The 4,000-acre K&T Farms irrigation project grows corn and edible beans using water from the McClusky Canal, as well as from a 190-foot well from the Nettie Aquifer. Steve Knorr, managing partner for the farm, says that's what makes it unique.

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