You actually haven’t driven the 5 and noticed the signs on the dried up fields that say ‘Congress Created Dust Bowl’? Or maybe they aren’t there anymore.....I haven’t driven that route in 9 years.
Not there.
Drought is over. All fields in production. Many of the dead almond trees have been replaced with olives...the right crop in comparison. In the Sacramento valley it’s green for 200 miles north of SAC, and 75 miles wide. Same with the San Joaquin to Bakersfield. That’s another 300 miles and 75 miles wide.
There’s nothing else like it anywhere in the world.
This Big Valley is still the most productive farmland in the world, by HUGE margins.
“You actually haven’t driven the 5 and noticed the signs on the dried up fields that say ‘Congress Created Dust Bowl’? Or maybe they aren’t there anymore.....I haven’t driven that route in 9 years.”
There are still some remaining signs of 2007 along I-5, but a lot of acreage has bee replanted and it’s interesting to see groves of fruit and nut trees being “drip irrigated.”
But no matter, as big as CA agriculture is, and it does, in many areas “feed the entire country,” is it a pissant by comparison to Silicon Valley. So if our Ag goes under, the country will suffer with fewer fresh fruits, nuts and vegetables, but it isn’t going to cause the State to collapse, although I wish that that were the case.