"Currently farmers are tasked with finding a home for used drip tape; sometimes it gets piled up, sometimes it goes to the landfill. Better equipment is being used now that can help get the mud out of the tape, but we still need to find appropriate avenues to utilize the used tape."

Idaho is suffering one of the state’s most extreme droughts since the 1920s, depleting the reservoirs, forcing producers to shut irrigation systems off early and households to conserve water usage – and forecasters predict the dry spell is likely to continue.