If the farmer had simply supported more democrats, he could be like his neighbor with a field full of heavy trees with nuts in them.
The current drought is the excuse why those trees are parched, not the reason. Federal and state regulations, busting dams, and political games are the reasons why those fields aren’t producing. Worst is if a farmer happens to be along the corridor for the proposed high speed rail project; those farmers were the first to find their water allocations gone.
Payola for water; it is how the game is played in the central valley.
2. Isn't there a Delta Smelt controversy in there somewhere?
The water systems were put in specifically for agricultural use in the early days. California is an agricultural state. If morons want to redirect the water to some other use, or cut it off from areas where it was explicitly created to facilitate farming in the first place, then they better be ready to depopulate the state since agriculture, particularly in light of the states propensity to price itself out of the industrial labor market, is providing much of the tax revenue...
I was coming up I-5 yesterday and noticed a couple almond groves entirely ripped up by the roots.
The most destructive thing to hit California, bigger than any drought, flood, earthquake or other natural disaster has been the lock-stock-and-barrel political takeover by the hard left, and could be easily quantified by a beancounter willing to honestly compile the numbers.
Funny, I don’t see any mention of the Klamath Falls dam decision, and the effect it had on Oregon as well as California.
Selective reporting, as usual.
The EPA has done more damage to the US economy than any other gov’t department, and I’m INCLUDING the IRS!
If this follows the patterns I remember from my childhood, either this year or next year California will be devastated by floods. Made worse by the fact that the drought killed off the plants that would otherwise control the erosion.
One hundred percent self inflicted wound.
They should have irrigated.
The state sits next to the Pacific Ocean.
Properly maintained desalinisation plants would make the state a freshwater exporter.
There is no cure for stupid.
Screw the farmers. We can get everything we need at the grocery store. We can’t save delta smelt without water. /s
That's a lot of almond milk lattes. What will the progressives do without them?
It's sort of lopsided for them to prop up Silicon Valley technological innovations and not do the same for agricultural innovations.
Oh, wait. Can't support those inland "red" counties, can they.
The same counties that feed them and everyone else.
Folks, the simple solution is to provide the water at free market prices, There is no shortage, it’s just underpriced (to some customers).
The tiny price these farmers pay for water is nothing but corporate welfare. Yes, rip out some trees that were never cost effective without the subsidy,
OMG! I am going to miss my required one bag a week?
Once it hits the Corn then the Lobby will demand water!
I wouldn’t miss the artichokes or celery a damn bit, but almonds are tasty.
Could very well have come from Joe Biden, who couldn't spell either! ("Three letter word: JOBS!")
It’s China Town
I wonder why they never proceeded with the massive Auburn Dam project...
Oh, I forget. The environmentalists!
hhmmmmmmm My husband just planted 400 more pecan trees, too bad it will be 20 years before we get any pecans off them.