Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has moved to end a farming deal with a subsidiary of a major Saudi dairy company.
Arizona governor moves to end farming deal with Saudi dairy company

Arizona Gov. Katie Hobbs has moved to end a farming deal with a subsidiary of a major Saudi dairy company.

Since 2015, Fondomonte has pumped huge amounts of groundwater from beneath the earth’s surface to grow alfalfa in the rural Arizona desert. CBS News senior national and environmental correspondent Ben Tracy has more.

Demand for dairy protein is running strong in the U.S. and around the world, and that provides opportunities — and challenges — for the U.S. dairy sector, according to CoBank’s outlook report for the year ahead.

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