Posted on 06/06/2022 10:48:51 AM PDT by Jan_Sobieski
As a former rice farmer in northern California, I can testify to the stupidity and insanity of environmentalists who favor obscure fish over humans. Water to farmers is now below growing levels and will cause devastation to the 2022 rice industry, taking down farmers as well as all related industries. The fact that the world is facing a major food shortage means nothing to these environmental zealots. ⁃ TN Editor
Colusa County in Northern California is the top producer of rice in the Sacramento Valley. Colusa County historically produces more than 150,000 acres of rice in a normal year. But in 2022, Colusa officials say they will only be able to produce a fraction of their usual rice crop, costing rice farmers, workers and suppliers hundreds of millions of dollars.
“In April 2022, the water districts serving Colusa County were given their final allocation for the 2022 growing season – 0.4-acre feet per acre,” Colusa County officials said in a statement. “This allocation is not enough to support rice production, and estimates show that the Sacramento Valley will fallow 370,000 of 450,000 acres in the Sacramento River Settlement Contractors service area, primarily in Colusa and Glenn Counties. Currently, less than 7,000 acres are estimated to be planted in Colusa County, resulting in a direct financial loss to growers in excess of $270 million.”
The first 50% of California’s water flows out to the Pacific Ocean for fish and environmental purposes – something the Public Policy Institute of California verified in 2019: “Water in California is shared across three main sectors. Statewide, average water use is roughly 50% environmental, 40% agricultural, and 10% urban...”
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Been going on for years. There a MANY nut farmers who relied on irrigation to keep their trees alive and California just cut them off and hundreds of thousands of trees died and the nut farmers lost everything.
The “Breadbasket of the World” is being purposely destroyed by the lefty loons.
When will the courts inform the Population Control whackos, that people are more important than fish....which aren’t actually “endangered” in the first place?
I remember visiting a fish hatchery when I was young.
It is my understanding that fishing license revenue supports fish reproduction.
How about growing rice where water is abundant like in Louisiana, for instance?
They want us dead.
We should make them dead first.
Fish are people to!
How long have you been farming?
Here’s how it works most environmentalist nut cases live in cities.
They pass laws that they think will save some obscure thing they have no real knowledge of.
So they won’t have any food in their stores.
That is called “Natural selection”.
Most modern Democrats aren’t fit to survive.
Rice uses a massive amount of water. There are incredible rice paddies in Mississippi. The mosquitos there are very thick because of the standing water. Don’t equate rice with other crops. Rice uses more water than anything other than fish.
Fish fish or bee fish?
They’ve been doing this for three decades give or take.
Their liberals, they voted for liberals let them lose their souls.
Every time a boat ramp, bridge or counter erosion project is proposed in the Connecticut River valley, the enviro-whackos bring in their divers.
Every time the divers find the same "endangered" snail and they try to stop the project.
If the snail is so endangered, why is it everywhere you look in the river banks?
Joe wants us to buy our rice from his buddy Xi.
100s of millions killed by their own governments’ forced famines can’t be wrong...
Why should I respond to an argument dressed up as a question?
This article does little more than seek sympathy for an oppressed group seeking a government benefit (water allocation). Louisiana is our country's third largest producer of rice, which needs an awful lot of water. A rice paddy is also a great place to farm crayfish.
Good answer.
This thread needs you to defend the fish.
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