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To: Old Teufel Hunden

Please stop this nonsense! The majority of California is NOT a desert. Repeating bogus information is no better than Uncle Jerry’s nonsense.


29 posted on 04/06/2015 9:25:06 AM PDT by SoCal Pubbie
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To: SoCal Pubbie

So, what part is coastal plain? The cliffs? The San Joaquin valley? Without the snowfall (regardless of rain) where does the water come from? Is there an aquifer, a true one?

Here’s what wiki says on agri:
“Agriculture is an important sector in California’s economy. Farming-related sales more than quadrupled over the past three decades, from $7.3 billion in 1974 to nearly $31 billion in 2004. This increase has occurred despite a 15 percent decline in acreage devoted to farming during the period, and water supply suffering from chronic instability. Factors contributing to the growth in sales-per-acre include more intensive use of active farmlands and technological improvements in crop production. In 2008, California’s 81,500 farms and ranches generated $36.2 billion products revenue. In 2011, that number grew to $43.5 billion products revenue. According to the USDA in 2011, the three largest California agricultural products by value were milk and cream, shelled almonds, and grapes.”

Yet the 2008 GDP of CA shows agri as only 2% of GDP. Damned real estate is more— guess that figures. As a farmer, the state could be a real garden of eden, except for all the flakes who gravitate there.


35 posted on 04/06/2015 9:40:36 AM PDT by John S Mosby (Sic Semper Tyrannis)
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To: SoCal Pubbie
"The majority of California is NOT a desert."

Southern California is classified a desert by virtue of the same reason as Antarctica is a desert. Because of it's annual rainfall. The mojave desert is a desert....
45 posted on 04/06/2015 10:20:55 AM PDT by Old Teufel Hunden
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