"We didn't have enough water to irrigate properly and people had the foresight to get together and scratch their heads and say, 'Okay, how can we make sure this doesn't happen again?'"farmer James Walsh said.
"You can see it around here, it's their enthusiasm and drive that's really going to progress things in the next 20 years."
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