I saw [this](https://www.nytimes.com/interactive/2023/05/22/climate/colorado-river-water.html) article today which mentions that 55% of water usage in the west is used for livestock feed. Is there a reason we can’t grow this feed in different parts of the country with more abundant water?
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It’s not that we can’t, it’s that there are other higher value crops.
If you have land for crops you probably have some amount of water access with it. Financially, you should grow the highest value crop with the weather and water you have available. That means things like rice or almonds or pistachios.
Livestock feed is kind of the bottom of the barrel, it doesn’t need much, so you grow it where you can’t grow other things.
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