Posted on 12/24/2016 12:15:54 PM PST by EveningStar
Food scientists at Cornell University have produced a strain of broccoli that thrives in hot environments, which may make it possible for states with stiflingly hot summers to grow the vegetable. California, where cool coastal fog is perfect for growing standard broccoli, currently produces more than 90 percent of the broccoli grown in the United States. If California were to disappear, what would the American diet be like?
Expensive and grainy. California produces a sizable majority of many American fruits, vegetables, and nuts: 99 percent of artichokes, 99 percent of walnuts, 97 percent of kiwis, 97 percent of plums, 95 percent of celery, 95 percent of garlic, 89 percent of cauliflower, 71 percent of spinach, and 69 percent of carrots (and the list goes on and on). Some of this is due to climate and soil. No other state, or even a combination of states, can match California's output per acre. Lemon yields in California, for example, are more than 50 percent higher than in Arizona. California spinach yield per acre is 60 percent higher than the national average. Without California, supply of all these products in the United States and abroad would dip, and in the first few years, a few might be nearly impossible to find. Orchard-based products in particular, such as nuts and some fruits, would take many years to spring back.
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To all who say “dump California and let ‘em all die in an earthquake,” you jerks should understand that farmers and those in Northern California are conservatives. You myopic morons would throw my conservative children and grand-children out with the bath water.
When I was young, my family grew a year's supply of vegetables every year on, in total, about an acre. This was in addition to what was supplied to local retailers.
So if you're saying that this process was somehow deficient because we didn't have sufficiently rich, mineral-laden soil like California has, then I agree with you: I simply do not understand the problem.
Cauliflower is easy to grow but we don’t eat it much. Celery grows in the south but not here in the Midwest. There ain’t nothin like a Georgia peach.
I hear you. Onyx and Jim Robinson are Californians. I would challenge anyone to dispute their conservatism.
We do grow venison, but not from seed. Oddly, deer have little regard for fences, so they often range on the neighbors, but every year we harvest at least 3.
Whether CA secedes or officially becomes Mexifornia, I doubt it would just quit all farming.
Two observations:
1. The obvious answer to “what will we eat if we lose Kali”:
What is Kali going to do with all that perishable food if they don’t sell it to us?
2. The coastal elites have done their best to crush the agricultural output with their water policy lunacy.
What is the point of this piece?
Is she implying that California could be destroyed or something?
Or is she implying that if we don’t grovel and California were to actually secede (my dream) then we’d no longer be able to buy their produce?
It’s a strange way to present an article highlighting how rich in agriculture the state is.
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Just saying that the needed level of production is not possible.
In addition Ca valleys produce all year around, except for corn.
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If California wants to secede, let ‘em go.
But make them pay retail to buy back all the investments the rest of us have made in their state via our federal tax dollars.
My take home is that if terrorists nuked every cesspool democrat urban center in California, we will do just fine with the remaining conservative rural areas of the state.
Thanks for posting.
This not such a fantasy. Liberal California regulations are pushing farmers bankrupt or out of state.
CA will go the way of Venezuela soon.
If I had time, I need to provide you instructions. Are you from Massachusetts ?
So, the only value California produces is in vegetables and fruits, why is the state working so hard to cripple the only people in the state who add any value to the U.S.?
I have grown cauliflower many times in the Midwest. The kids didn’t like it so we dropped it. Celery is trickier but it lacks nutrient content anyway.
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49,595
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17,531
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42,193
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1,048
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318
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211
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Baloney! California never grew and orange or grapefruit half as good as Florida. Same goes for a lot of their veggies.
See post 118.
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