Posted on 04/07/2021 3:11:26 PM PDT by Mariner
A third-generation peach grower in Escalon, I was born and raised on our family farm and knew that I wanted to farm when I was still a young kid. My son and daughter are involved in our family farm operation today.
Sadly, I have seen the California cling peach industry decline significantly over the last 30 years. The state’s bearing acreage is down by nearly 50% and we’ve seen our cannery customers shrink from five down to just two: Del Monte Foods and Pacific Coast Producers.
My own peach farming operation is feeling the impact of these changes as some of my peaches do not have a processing contract for the 2021 season and could potentially go on the ground at harvest time if no buyer emerges.
One of the biggest threats that peach growers face today is the increasing volume of foreign canned peaches entering our country, primarily from China and Greece. Adding insult to injury, some of these foreign peaches have been purchased with taxpayer dollars and served in school feeding programs in California and other states.
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While across the street from a peach orchard.
This is what Free Traitors have wrought.
Kids in CA eat peaches from Greece and China.
While across the street from a peach orchard.
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They need just a little more free rein during recess.
I carefully examine canned, frozen, and bottled foods for country of origin. If I see China listed, it stays on the shelf. I am disturbed enough to see countries other than the U.S. on those packages. What, we don’t grow beets? Don’t grow potatoes? Don’t harvest enough honey here?
Alaskan oil should go to Asia. World market. Is that because we can’t drink it?
Never buy food from China. Saw some beautiful garlic at Sam's, but it was from China. Put it back. They have no respect for life or environmental concerns. Just don't know what is in their crap. Same with a cast iron pan I looked at - who knows. Don't want to cook on something possibly contaminated.
We certainly do, and that’s why I buy right from the farmer if I possibly can, and otherwise frequent farmers markets.
I do a lot of my own food preservation using locally grown, or self-grown produce.
Talked to the produce manager at my local market - he told me that 90% of our garlic is from China - it all used to come from Gilroy, CA
Good ideas.
And besides, we always heard that California had plenty of fruits and nuts.
Dual apologies: to FReepers who don’t have any control over their leftist neighbors and to FReepers who have heard that old gag too many times.
It is easy to produce low cost peaches with slave labor, no environmental regulations, being under a government that is looking to destroy the buyers economy, and the buyers government looking to line its leaders pockets.
That is really sad to hear
Yep, damn easy.
I am surprised that you see China on so many labels. I’m in Canada and rarely NOT see a “made/produced in Canada label” unless it is a speciality product or in the “asian foods” aisle
Garlic has been that way for at least 15 years.
peaches contain a lot of water. I’d rather have peaches grown in the US, where I know the grower is monitoring his water quality and his use of orchard chemicals, than peaches from a grossly overpolluted and unregulated China.
Garlic is ridiculously easy to grow.
It’s very low maintenance, takes up little garden space, and is virtually pest free.
Doncha all love Newsom & the Democrat Legislature....???
This is a federal program and the foreign peaches were purchased under Trump.
So has apple juice...
Amen to that! My particular pet peeve is garlic. I’m about 50 miles as the crow flies from Gilroy, but about 10-15 years ago I started to notice that China was the coa of most fresh garlic and garlic powder. Others here noticed too and voiced their concerns. So now some of the local stores stock domestic garlic.
I have gone so far as to send emails to grocery chains and national spice brands inquiring about the source of their garlic.
We have a local spice company here that sources their ingredients within California. I usually only buy their garlic powder, but if it’s not available I’ll buy another brand, but it has to have California grown garlic
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