Dairy cows tend to eat a lot of grass and alfalfa. But those crops need water and there isn’t much of that in Gill, Colorado, these days.
On a recent morning, after the driest winter on record, the little farm town just east of the Rocky Mountains was as tan and crispy as a potato chip, roiling with tumbleweed and fire ants.
Scott Morris, chief technical officer of a startup called Rain Enhancement Technologies Inc., was there to try to change that, at least a bit. The affable Australian stood next to a gangly contraption, a shock of metal in ...