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Damn, pot is going to get real expensive...
As long as we don't become dependent on Mexico and South America for our food......
Urban development is the #1 killer of Calif. followed by immigration. CA Pols think more land development solves all their problems.
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Great! Agriculture is becoming more efficient.
Food is overrated.
Would be interested to see how many of those grew tobacco 10 years ago.
It's OK, I found them. They were under the couch.
Well we could always give illegal aliens large pieces of land so that they can "do the farming that Americans won't do".
California is being inundated with foreign nationals. They've got to go somewhere. California is a hugh resource nationally when it comes to farm produce. Destroying it's farm capabilities is a big mistake IMO.
Most of the farm land in California is in the Central Valley. Do you guys know how big this valley is? Try 450 miles.
Driving from Sacramento down Hwy 5 you have one large city (Stockton) before you reach the turn off to the San Francisco bay area. If you were to continue driving south, you would need to drive to the end of the valley and over the grapevine to reach another large city. About six hours (of some of the most boring driving you will ever do). Except for farms and a few small cities there is nothing on Hwy 5 for hundreds of miles. Did I mention, except for farms.
If you decided to drive down Hwy 99 (Hwy 5 and 99 meet at both ends of the valley but for the most part they run parallel about 20 miles apart. Most of the land between the two roads is farm land.
Driving 99 south from Sacramento you hit a large city about every hour, Stockton, Modesto, Merced, Fresno and then Bakersfield. Everything between the cities is farm land.
The Central Valley is 450 miles long, and most of it is farm land. I don’t think we will be running out of land any time soon.
Just wait. They'll find out the Dems were only hiding them
to make Arnold look bad.
Save the family farms. One of the last honorable occupations. Insurance, usery, government cheese and advertising will be the death of us all.
Isn't amazing that with the drop of agricultural acreage and 11+M illegals here under the pretense of "working the fields", our elected official still turn a blind eye to the swarms of illegals crossing our borders on a daily basis?
The way it's presented in the article, the author is implying that those farms are just gone, not growing anything any more. In fact, businesses of all kinds fail all the time. It's part of the game.
Oh great! Does that mean illegal aliens will start collecting unemployment benefits now? Don't answer.....I know....they probably already do.
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It is called Capitalism.
A farmer is a small businessman, just like a deli owner, restauraunt owner, gas station owner or an eBay store owner.
If the big boys do a better job, then time to find a new line of work.
I dont worry about farms, there is more than enough food in the grocery store.