Posted on 02/23/2014 8:37:53 AM PST by thecodont
FIREBAUGH, Calif. (AP) — With California's agricultural heartland entrenched in drought, almond farmers are letting orchards dry up and in some cases making the tough call to have their trees torn out of the ground, leaving behind empty fields.
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I guess that no one ever taught you not to broad brush!
Ok, you believe they plan to shoot those who disobey water regulations. That makes it time to identify and locate THOSE WHO WILL GIVE THE ORDERS and cause them to disappear or have “accidents”. Cut off the head, the snake will die.
Texans get broad brushed every day so deal with it!
By the way, preemptive self-defense is NOT murder!
Where is the money?
The same place o’zero is going to magic it from...if he is going to spend it anyway ,make it count for something useful in the long term.
It could just pay for itself by preventing the loss of an important source of revenue. Plus the water is an exportable product to other states.
But we must not forget the ‘barry’ factor.
The guy dug up 20% of his trees and to what purpose? He can’t wait for the spring rains next month to see if the trees recovered? Sounds a bit rash or he’s got something else going that isn’t being reported. An immediate sell off of livestock when there is no water is a must but that’s not the case with trees. Either he got some government subsidy or he’s working on a bigger investment project for that now bare land.
While every venture has it’s risks, did he stop to think where he’d get water during dry years before he planted those trees? Would another crop use less water or was this all for the inital investors who could sell out during the good years?
Yep.
“Communists always use the full might of the state to destroy agriculture.”
That is an excellent observation.
hope they wait at least another week. This week California is supposed to get rain and the end of the week it is supposed to get an abundance of rain.
Since the gun grabbers feel so threatened they should pack their bags and move to the safe gun free zones like Chicago, detroit, and DC.
My guess is that it takes very little time for someone who is not an optimist to give up farming. When things work well, the farmer does quite well. When they don't go well, the losses mount quickly.
Weather of all types, including rainfall, varies so greatly that nobody would plant anything if they couldn't tolerate the loss of at least some of the crop.
I was talking to an elderly man who farmed in west Texas when he was a young man. He recalled one year in which he had to plant his crops FIVE TIMES because flash floods or scorching heat or an untimely wind storm destroyed all his work. If he had been unwilling to re-plant the fifth time he would have had no crop at all.
The linked article explains that the trees that receive too little water are weakened and can become infested with insects and disease that can then spread easily to the rest of the orchard. Evidently they find it more economical to lose some of the trees to preserve the others.
The bottom line is that it is simply not as easy as it might appear to be a successful farmer.
at least one person here gets that reference.
So does everyone else here, especially those who live in the northeast or California.
Sorry to say, most of these farmers have been recipients of agricultural welfare for decades.
This is what happens when you take money from your fellow citizens other than from the sales of your products.
The government owns you.
The citizens get screwed either way. The farmers gladly take the taxes stolen from us by the legislators they help get into office and then they get the rug pulled out from under them.
Gov. Moonbeam just announced that the farmers hurt by the drought will get even more money from the taxpayers.
Sweet deal, huh?
I think I see a new housing development in the works!
You would not believe the orange groves we knocked down in So Cal for Housing!
If you reduce the food supply by say, 30%, you drive up the price and the government may have to step in to seize food supplies and take over distribution, or at the least, to issue ration books and thus control whoever needs food.
If a recipient has little money, he or she may be able to eat at government expense and have your ration coupons for free. If you make more than a certain amount per year, why then, you will have to pay for your ration coupons to help the less fortunate. Money moves from the rich to the government to the poor, and the government gains control.
If you step out of line, will they reduce your rations, or raise the price for your coupons? Who can afford to not eat? Everyone sees the benefit of becoming a party member, a member of the collective!
So, how do you reduce the food supply? cut off water to the farmers in the name of progressive environmental ideology.
Preppers, be certain to consider buying some smelt fishing nets. (Fresh caught they are very good breaded and deep fried!) Be careful not to knock your guns off the bank and into the water when you reach for that bottle of beer!
>>”You would not believe”>>>>
I live in Houston so I probably would believe it! :)
I knew someone would.
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