Eldon Ackerman walks on his farm Thursday March 13, 2013 north of Fort Collins, Colo. With Colorado's mountain snowpack still starved of water, Fort Collins isn't sending its excess water to farmers this year. Ackerman has decided to let 70 percent of his land sit there, cropless. Ackerman's family has farmed in Larimer County since 1928. (AP Photo/The Fort Collins Coloradoan, Bobby Magill)