[Amerigomag]

The mindset expressed in reply 15 is precisely the problem that California's agricultural industry faces in its attempt to preserve one of the nations strategic assets.

Those observers of California's least productive agricultural areas perceive an abundance of supply and ignore the immediate consequences of unregulated immigration on its most productive farms lands located in the Santa Clara and Salinas Valleys, the eastern 2/3 of the Sacramento and San Joaquin Valleys and the delta of the Santa Clara River.

[forester]

The mindset expressed in reply 15 is precisely the problem that California's agricultural industry faces in its attempt to preserve one of the nations strategic assets

Agreed. I would also add that small farms are being regulated to the point that they are no longer profitable by alphabet soup agencies WQ, DFG, EPA, OSHA, NMFS etc. Many a formerly profitable small farmer has been turned into a willing seller by these regulators. It is no surprise to me that the farms that are not bought by agribusiness are being paved over by developers.

Don't get me started on the planning folks....