Why destroy the trees? Why not open it up for people to pick their own peaches, like they do with strawberry farms around the country. Or do they have other plans for selling the land.
>>Or do they have other plans for selling the land.<<
I shudder to think . . . some screwball idea for sure.
I would imagine the liability of having people climb up trees on their own ladders (or no ladders at all) would be a problem. I still don't get why the trees need to be removed.
Are you kidding?
California actually doing the citizens a solid instead sticking it to them?
As the guard at the Emerald City gate told Dorothy in The Wizard of Oz.......NOT NO WAY, NOT NO HOW! 😁
They will turn the land in to high density apartments.
> Why destroy the trees? <
It’s an odd story, to be sure. And the article does not address your very good question.
Maybe the farmers want to plant different crops there?
Some regulation I’m sure.
I’ve been ordered to destroy healthy pistachio trees and peanut crops before.
I just cut the pistachios back unduly so they counted as “destroyed” and they grew back great and turned cattle loose on the peanuts.
We somehow produce ample food despite the stupidity of our government.
Maybe the gov’t needs to buy the cannery to make commodity canned food.
This may be about water.
Maybe legal issues with patented GMO trees.
The problem with that is these peach orchards in the Central valley take extraordinary amount of irrigation water. That water is not free, it’s charged for in “acre feet”. We’re talking multi millions of dollars. Without the infrastructure to process the peaches they produce no income. Without the irrigation the trees don’t survive. Unless someone has spent enough time in the Central valley it’s hard to comprehend the scale of the industrial agriculture the goes on.
Pick a Peach Day
Exactly! Heck, refine/distill them into alcohol and add them to the ethanol fuel stream for that matter. It’s idiotic to destroy things that took 20 years to grow...
For that matter too, sanction the fiduciary team at Del Monte. You know the asshole bean counters got creative with debt instruments and financial shenanigans, its almost impossible to screw up a commodity food producer unless you’re trying to weasel out “value” and pass it off as “shareholder positive” to pad your bonus’...
420,000 trees. That’s a lot of peaches. Plus, the orchards are not in population areas and you would have to climb ladders to get them. It costs a lot to water and maintain those trees. I might collect some of the wood for musical instruments. Stone fruit trees make good tone woods.
Aside from that they will just be sold for firewood.
I agree!
Peaches are good! And they are better fresh than canned!