Posted on 07/22/2011 6:14:22 AM PDT by quesney
Yup. California's problem with property rights is directly traceable to its alternative developed value. That means many a "farmer" is actually a land investor holding the piece at low property taxes under the Williamson Act looking to cash in. Meanwhile, "green groups" and government agencies, often sponsored by bigger real estate investors, are looking to swipe it, cheap. Hence Delta Smelt, coho salmon, or any number of other causes.
When TEOTWAWKIGodzilla arisesastroid strikeszombie apocolypseeconomic meltdown
the day welfare checks stop forever, those laws will be mute.
We have zero trouble knowing the right thing to do.
Keep them indoors most of the time – they still fulfill their warning and protective duties for what’s really important and they themselves are protected from those threats.
I own a small farm. I have chickens and turkeys that I keep as close to the house as I can. 14 birds all told. If they start disappearing, well I own a shotgun as well, no matter what “critter” is stealing them.
I live on a farm. I own 4 pugs, does that count? LOL, seriously though, we also own a GS/Wolf hybrid.....he isn’t all that quick, and he’s really old but he looks mean enough.
He’s maybe got a year or two left and I am planning on replacing him with a Boxer inside the house and another shepherd outside using an invisible fence to keep that one from wandering.
I figger if the bad guys (by some miracle make it past the GS, they have the Boxer to deal with. If they make it past both dogs, well the missus has her .38 and I have my shotgun.
“When the SHTF and its going to.”
Literally everyone I talk to lately can feel it coming. We’ve already moved my MIL out here from the city just this month and I have two of our three daughters here.....just in case.
My 19 y/o daughter won’t leave the city until the S actually HTF, even though I’ve explained to her that it will likely be far too late by then.
Table grapes are not usually 'packed in a plastic bag' like the deputy said and then taken to market. Table grapes are harvested by hand as soon as they are ripe enough to pass a brix (sugar) minimum level. Why? Because that is when the market is the highest and the window for harvest is brief, a matter of a week or two at max for each and every row of vines. Harvest crews are very experienced and skilful carefully removing with razor sharp cutting tools heavy , hot bunches of grapes and placing them into 23 lb boxes stacked in the field so that they can be immediately loaded and taken to a facility to be hydro-cooled, weighed, inspected ( on site USDA and California Dept of Ag.) and then to market, usually shipped in 18 wheel reefers. Open a box at your grocers and be amazed at the lack of spoilage and damage, the fact that virtually all grapes are still on the vines and artfully arranged in the box, etc.
So for thieves to come up to a vineyard unnoticed by crews of often more than a hundred workers, foremen, drivers etc. is highly unlikely as they would be immediately questioned. And for thieves to approach a field just before the grapes are ready, at best a matter of days, would require a great amount of skill just to know how to harvest. High risk and low reward - a few hands of grapes after lots of work in a scratchy, hot vineyard. Equal concerns for other crops like stonefruits, avocadoes, etc.
Now copper pipes and wire are a different matter.
Many people don’t realize that a standard size (big) poodle makes an excellent guard dog. They’re not intimidating-looking, however, but are very alert to intrusion and are highly intelligent. So are the medium-sized poodles. Poodles have an image problem, unfortunately.
I hear ya. We are about 60 days from moving to a retreat in the N GA mountains. We are purchasing a large enough place to house 8 family members, 3 dogs and a cat.
Trying to exist in the Metro Atlanta area when the SHTF is going to be impossibly dangerous and there probably won’t be adequate or safe water and food. Who wants to sit up 24 hours a day trying to defend a house that sits 75 ft off the street on a half acre lot?
But, but, but, liberals 'feel' good about themselves when they protect the 'brown' peoples of the world... and isn't that what it's really about? Liberals being able to feel good about themselves...
Check out FerFals blog for his opinion on dogs in a rural setting.
The perps should become fertilizer.
Nothing new here.
Walnut farmer always figure 10-20% loss due to theft, or they used to.
A pick-up load of Walnuts or Almonds is worth some bucks.
And, those who go into those orchards at night are taking a big risk...40 years ago they would be find a few every year face down in the irrigation canals.
I'm guessing CSI technologies have put a damper on that activity.
However, there will be violence. A farmer can't lose those volumes, often his profit margin.
Let’s be honest. The United States is a Second World nation with a Third World philosophy. What’s the difference between the bums who steal from farms in California’s Central Valley and the teachers in the Atlanta school system that abetted cheating? What’s the difference between the bums who gave mortgages to deadbeats who could never pay for their home, and Iowa meatpackers who stocked their personnel with illegal immigrants? What’s the difference between Wall Street jockeys who live off insider trading and the thousands of clown who occupy the M Street corridor and use the venality of Congress to their own purpose? What’s the difference in cheating scandals that hime impacted Ohio State and Michigan? USC and Oregon? Need I continue?
Thanks quesney.
Very nice....
Grow atypical crops that most city rats won’t recognize as food, get a good fierce dog, and keep your gates charged and locked. And maybe keep a few greenbriars or nettle patches strategically placed.
They'd use propane cylinders and thief off of the trailers used to haul the fertilizer in.
(Note: the Anhydrous Ammonia discolors the brass valve and turns it blue, in case you want to know something to look for).
Farmers who kept water troughs near the equipment in case some leaked on them started dumping the troughs (nasty stuff, it'll burn you).
I think the formula for Meth changed, as that seems to have settled down.
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