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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Oh c’mon! Aren’t you glad President Lincoln brought you back to the fold?
Not the question, which is, if they seceded, who would they have to sell to?
Cali is all about the cities. All that ag country are solid red counties.
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>> “ Do they think we’ve forgotten how to grow vegetables in the rest of the country?” <<
You simply do not understand the problem.
The valleys of California contain organically rich, mineral laden soils that exist in few places in the world.
Particularly, nowhere else in the US.
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We grow beef and venison too, what more do you need?
I’d miss cauliflowers and celery but those other things Ca. Grows I can do without.
Close but no cee-garr.
Rio Grande Valley
http://www.westernfarmpress.com/rio-grande-valley-vegetable-crops-earning-top-dollar
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The premise here contains a big fallacy. The assumption is that after California is purged, things will continue unabated.
However, water comes to California via the lower 47. When the water is curtailed, california as usual is curtailed
” beef, ice cream and chocolate “
Send me some seeds so I can grow some in Floriduh. Will they work here, unlike our Snowbirds? /f
/f = facetious
Liberals kill me. The author seems to believe California would simply stop growing food. Nonsense. They’ll grow it, we’ll buy it. Meanwhile, plenty of people will supplement by growing their own. Novel concept, eh?
Of course, when it comes to their national defense....that’s another matter. I guess they could hire mercenaries. But the tax rate. Haahhhh!
Repercussions, consequences...
Specious article.
I grew up on a farm (60’s) in Glendale AZ, next door to Phoenix. Our winter crop, all 110 acres, was broccoli. It was the only food that I could eat all I wanted.
See post #68
Re, Venison
What can the new administration do to insist on stopping voter fraud in CA? I hope something.
Even in California markets lots of the fruits and vegis come from Mexico and South America. California has to sell their produce some where.
New Jersey is called the Garden State because at one time it had the most vegetable gardens of any state - not to mention apples, cranberries, and peaches.
Or that California will stop selling produce to the US? They’re going to need the money.
Agreed. If Cali were to secede, do they think they will have the access to the Colorado River?
Cali has over-regulated itself such that its potential to provide agriculture has been reduced. They have actually caused their drought and on top of that, have made it worse. Without Cali? The rest of the country would step up.....and they could and would.
If Cali secedes, the US should place HIGH tariffs on the ‘entertainment business’ and high taxes on ‘entertainers’ when they come to Vegas and Branson. They will learn the hard way of being a separate nation.
As you travel through California you notice a definite split personality. In the cities talk radi is liberal, music is hard or hip hop, and as you move into the farm country radio is conservative, a lot of the music is country and the people are warm and friendly.
It would be better to split CA into 4 states with the incredible farm communities separated from San Francisco and LA
Well, they won’t sell it to us, just like artists and designers won’t sell to Melania trump, because liberals are sooo principled.
You must be referring to the “Red, baseball size, leather skinned, green cored, genetically modified, tasteless sack of seeds tomato” Yes?
yes
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