We are proud to bring you our local radio show, The Dry Side Dispatch. All past episodoes of the radio show are available on the Sandhills Area Research Association You Tube channel. You can also listen live via the YouTube chanel on Friday's at Noon. All future episodes will now be included on this platform and the Sandhills Area Research Association's website.
The Dry Side Dispatch is a West Texas radio show and media project from the Sandhills Area Research Association broadcast live on KRFE 95.9 FM. Hosted by Tillery Timmons-Sims, Andy Timmons, and Dusty Timmons, the program focuses on regional agriculture, land conservation, hunting, oil and gas, and local news.
This episode of Dry Side Dispatch is a wide-ranging conversation about how West Texas agriculture is adapting to limited water, higher input costs, and changing production practices. The group discusses cover crops and crop insurance, compares groundwater management in Texas and Kansas, and considers how dwindling Ogallala supplies are reshaping decisions about irrigation and land use.
A major focus is cotton production, including research into later planting dates, NASA-assisted analysis of weather and freeze risk, lower-cost seed options, drought-adapted varieties, and precision technologies such as targeted spraying. The broader theme is finding production systems that remain economically viable with less water—potentially combining limited irrigation, dryland cotton, grass, and livestock rather than relying on traditional high-input farming models.
27 Oct 2026
Life Depends on Rivers: Conservation, Water Policy, and Working Together in the Southwest
Dusty Timmons visits with Matt Rice of American Rivers to talk about river conservation, water policy, and the growing need to protect freshwater systems across the Southwest and Texas. Matt shares how American Rivers works with agriculture, cities, conservationists, and local communities to find practical solutions that support healthy rivers, clean water, recreation, wildlife, and rural economies.
The conversation explores the complexity of water challenges, from invasive species and aging dams to irrigation, floodplains, river restoration, and the importance of local watershed groups. It’s a thoughtful look at how rivers connect people across political, geographic, and economic lines — and why protecting them requires collaboration, incentives, and a long-term commitment to future generations.
22 Oct 2026
Dry Side Dispatch • October 16 • Robert Crain
We are proud to bring you our local radio show, The Dry Side Dispatch. All past episodoes of the radio show are available on the Sandhills Area Research Association You Tube channel. You can also listen live via the YouTube chanel on Friday's at Noon. All future episodes will now be included on this platform and the Sandhills Area Research Association's website.
The Dry Side Dispatch is a West Texas radio show and media project from the Sandhills Area Research Association broadcast live on KRFE 95.9 FM. Hosted by Tillery Timmons-Sims, Andy Timmons, and Dusty Timmons, the program focuses on regional agriculture, land conservation, hunting, oil and gas, and local news.
This episode of Dry Side Dispatch features Robert Crain of Texas Pacific Water discussing the growing challenge—and potential opportunity—of produced water from oil and gas operations in the Permian Basin. Crain explains how his team developed a freeze-distillation process to remove salts from extremely saline produced water, followed by reverse osmosis and other treatment steps to create water clean enough for beneficial reuse.
The conversation explores how treated produced water could reduce underground disposal, help restore flows in the Pecos River, support agriculture, and potentially recharge depleted aquifers such as the Ogallala. Crain also discusses regulatory hurdles, aging “zombie” wells, the economics of water treatment, and the need to pair new water supplies with more efficient irrigation and long-term conservation practices.
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Dr Allen Williams
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Tiffany Lashmet
Michaela Smith
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