Vile Weed!
Posted on 12/24/2016 12:15:54 PM PST by EveningStar
Food scientists at Cornell University have produced a strain of broccoli that thrives in hot environments, which may make it possible for states with stiflingly hot summers to grow the vegetable. California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States. If California were to disappear, what would the American diet be like?
Expensive and grainy. California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California's output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.
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See post 118.
And what would CA fruits/vegetables be like without “out of state” water? How about out-of-state power that is sent in? They need us more than we need them.
California will splinter if it secedes. They may have to create a Blue Army to keep the red parts in line. The blues may have a numbers advantage, but they will be fighting on the reds home ground, and my guess is that the average red knows more about shooting and the outdoors than the average blue drsftee.
Let them go.
I’ll still buy their broccoli, and they’ll still produce it. It may cost more as CA has to start paying for a lot of stuff they get from the FEDS and as their taxes will inevitably triple......
So if California leaves there's no more broccoli? This just gets better and better!
Actually this is a fantastic point. All of the current law around Cali’s water supply would be null and void and they would have to renegotiate. Within months, Cali wouldn’t be capable of growing weeds. Their food-producing capacity would be reduced to zero.
Total hooey. So other states have to plant a few more acres?? They will, and quite quickly. Farmers are VERY astute business-men these days...they have to be.
Vile Weed!
We’d import more fruit from South America and Central America and salad bars would lose all the veggies only liberals eat.
I would point out that most of California’s agriculture is not in the ‘Commie paradise’ of the coast. The inland parts should not be abandoned. Let the coast secede.
Seems to me that there would be a boom in agricultural production in Arizona. Most of the Colorado River water could easily be diverted before it hit the international border between California and Arizona. Imagine what would happen to the economy in Arizona if they got all the water stolen by California for the Imperial Valley?
Why would the PLA Navy do that? Don’t be ridiculous.
I used the space to grow roses. Much more enjoyable.
The state is near bankruptcy already.
Curt Gentry wrote a book in 1968 called THE LAST DAYS OF THE LATE GREAT STATE OF CALIFORNIA that described what effect it would have on the rest of the states and the world if it disappeared. At that time Calif was the worlds sixth largest economy ...
Gonna be expensive. 35% tariffs to start with. Then there’s the agricultural quarantine, and their water and fuel prices are going to ‘necessarily skyrocket’.
You get the idea.
Look into “Vertical Farming” as an investment opportunity.
Rigorous prosecution of voter fraud and immigration rules would cause a lot of Democrat party losses;impeaching and replacing socialist activist judges who blocked the wil of the California voters’ proposition limiting taxing and freeloading are sorely needed.
The South grows fruits, nuts and vegetables, we could just increase yield if needed.
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