[Kozak]

Having lived in Sacramento for 7 years I did find it somewhat surreal that a semi desert grew----Rice. A crop suited for tropical marshes ( like theentire state of Louisiana), and a very low value crop at that. Check out the price of a 50lb sack at Sams Club. to do that they flooded immense fields with irrigation water. At the same time Sacramento residents were told not to wash their cars, serve water in restaurants or water their lawns. The whole reason was free water from the US Army Corps of Engineers. A totally bizarre and beutiful example of the distortions in the market when the guvment tries to help.

[no-s]

dude - Sacremento is at the end of a delta - lots of marshlands. There is even flooding there occasionally.