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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My crystal ball shows many tractors blocking I-5
Not in Colusa county, they didn’t.
Ooh! That stings.
I have yet to meet a conservative, even from California, who thinks the state's insane water policy makes a lick of sense. Perhaps a majority of the state's voters, living and dead, support wasting half of the fresh water attempting to restore an imagined pre-19th century riparian idea. I think it's dumb, and Cali is going to pay the price at some point.
Interesting to see that your hostility to almond farming extends to rice and Ag in general. Does that same hostility apply to the state's weed crop as well?
There is more ag in CA than can be sustained.
It is not possible to refuse land use for ag.
So the water is allocated. 50% for the rivers. 40% for ag. 10% for potable use.
When ag runs out of their 40%, tough shit.
And I know dozens of conservatives in CA. You don’t know any. I grew up with these guys, went to school with them.
Ask any family farmer at 640acres or less and they’ll tell you the problem lies with the enormous corporate farms growing export crops.
Such as almonds...80% go out of the country, only 5% is consumed in CA. Just as most of Calusa’s rice crop goes to Asia.
“Farmers” were not desperate for water 30 years ago, and under the same allocations.
It’s the explosion of corporate farms that is demanding the change in allocation.
Great farm land. Not enough water.
Again, you don’t know any conservatives...or farmers...in CA. And you don’t know shit about this subject.
The State Water Project SWP and federal Central Valley Project CVP were made to prevent flooding and provide water to agriculture and never was intended for fish. The Democrats, socialists, and environmental wackos have taken over government and destroying everything within their grasp. Can’t believe I am watching the whole world go insane and soon every institution will fail, people will starve, criminals will run rampant, and everything will come to a screeching halt.
Thanks for the post.
Quite a reaction to someone who simply asks questions about the discussion topic in a public hearing. At the same time, you intimate you have illuminating knowledge that you have not shared.
So you just know everything.
I don’t get what you’re trying to say.
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