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California – A Food Powerhouse In Peril
Submitted by Erico Tavares of Sinclair & Co.
California – A Food Powerhouse In Peril
Now in its third year, the drought in California has forced local farmers to switch their water use from rivers and reservoirs, which are at historic low levels, to underground sources. This has mitigated substantial production losses, but given that underground reservoirs take a long time to replenish, if the drought continues the food situation in California might get much more dicey.
Food export data provided by the US Department of Agriculture for 2012, that is, before the current drought started to bite, can provide a sense of what is at stake. [Note: while a State’s actual agricultural export value cannot be measured directly, the USDA provides estimates per major food variety based on farm cash-receipts data]. The following table shows the crops where California was ranked either #1 or #2 based on 2012 export values:
Source: USDA.
(1) Includes live animals, other meats, animal parts, eggs, wine, beer, other beverages, coffee, cocoa, hops, nursery crops, inedible materials and prepared foods.
Last July, a study on the effects of the drought on California’s food production by the UC Davis Center for Watershed Sciences highlighted that “consumer food prices will be largely unaffected. Higher prices at the grocery store of high-value California crops like nuts, wine grapes and dairy foods are driven more by market demand than by the drought.”
However, looking at the table above, future production losses could extend to a wider variety of staples: California represents almost one-fifth of all US States’ milk exports, a third of all vegetable and rice exports, almost half of all fruit exports and over 90% tree nut exports. What is equally striking is how distant the #2 States are in some cases in terms of production volumes.
So if the drought continues into the foreseeable future (and this is a real possibility), here’s a really interesting question: who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?
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Short answer: Russia
Gold or rubles only please. Nyet to Monopoly money.
mother nature bats last...
Governments generally organize the famines to their benefit.
We're still eating last year's crop. Someday soon, it will be gone, and food prices will skyrocket like motherfucker. 2015 will be an "interesting" year.
>> We're still eating last year's crop.
I'm eathing two and three year old crops. I'm having to severely curtail my growing due to a lack of demand.
Kalifornica will always be the land of all the Fruits & Nuts!
Fuck california...
We can get food somewhere else...
This whole drought is manufactured by the US goverment. Take a look at the link below and see what they are doing right under our noses.
www.geoengineeringwatch.com
Gleat Reap Folwald
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Leap_Forward
DBA
If you're worried, look up DBA
Nuffin' closer that I could find.....
It can be drier than the moon and California will always have plenty of fruits and nuts.
"So if the drought continues into the foreseeable future (and this is a real possibility), here’s a really interesting question: who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?"
Answer? Every other farmer on earth, plus other farmers who will appear, if needed. Remember corn? Pigs?
"...who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?"
MONSANTO!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
indygo55,
The idiot doing the video on high bypass engines obviously knows nothing about turbine engines. The high bypass was developed to make them quieter. Okay, this is going to sound obvious even to the uninformed. Engine produces high speed air, duh. When that air meets slower air, it produces a loud noise as a result of the turbulence. The turbulence is also a drag on the efficiency of the engine. So, some smart guys figured out that if the high speed air met with air that was moving slower than the engine air but faster than the aircraft/wing air, the turbulence and noise would be reduced.
The tubes behind the engine looked like pitot tubes that measure air pressures and speed. They do not have to face forward depending on the purpose.
Bypass engines still make contrails because they are still heating the air.
Mexico? France? China? Russia?Canada? You seem to be clueless where the MAJOR source of food comes from FOR THE WORLD!
You seem to misunderstand the chart. That chart shows California's exports. All of that does not go to other US states. In fact most other states produce a lot of those same foods locally. I rarely see california foods in my home town. Some from Mexico and some from Florida rarely from California. CA can dry up and fall apart and if the illegals all go home I won't care. The worst thing is if they come to Texas looking for work or handouts. I also grow what I can in my own backyard. It tastes better and doesn't have salmonella like CA veggies.
I wonder how much finance is invested in Californian agriculture...
Black swan?
I had to grind wheat today for next weeks flour. I opened a bag of Kamut I packed in 2005 to mix in with the wheat.
It's going to suck when I order more to replace what I've used over the last few years. Really suck.
I'm completely out of ground beaver burger and down to about 10 pounds of stew meat. Season opens Nov 8th. Time to get busy.
The main price increases in dollars-per-calorie terms would be on food items that are already high end now, not so much on commodity staples. They're traded globally, and pretty small changes in uses such as feeding animals or making fuel can absorb a lot of supply shock from some local drought or.war or.whatever.
Most of the commodity fruits and veggies come from Mexico, Ecuador, Peru - totally independent of Cali's drought. 1/3 of the US-grown tomato supply comes from here. By market impact, grapes and almonds would be the big hitters in terms of commercial impact. Of course, the CDFA doesn't recognize the biggest cash crop in its data:
http://www.cdfa.ca.gov/statistics/
Milk and other dairy will take a hit locally, especially with the high-end 'organic' and raw-milk products. It will be an interesting hodgepodge of price increases.
Raw Jersey cow milk is $11 a quart, or $44 a gallon.
Somebody's milking you?
$11.99 a gallon here (Pacific NW) for Raw Jersey.
There will be no inflation because of the drought in California. The BLS knows that Americans will switch their purchases from vegetables, fruits, and nuts to dry grass, lawn clippings, and cardboard.
This will be a big shit. ...
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Actually they do!
There's even a roadmap for it. I've read that somewhere a few years back but the way you do it is 1: shortage of food and than you drain the population from their money the first year, the second you take their precious belongings and the third you let them trade their livestock. The next year you let them go hungry and after that you take their land.
And than the government restores the balance and let's everybody go back to work on their former land in return for a 20% tax.
It's called rhe pharao tax because there's only 1 who owns it all.
dang... That plan will probably work too. At what point of that plan do the original owners start setting things on fire?
I see you have been reading Genesis again. No matter how you prettify it (and Thomas Mann worked hard on this), it shows you how the Tribe works to dispossess and dominate.
Drone, bomb, and "kill-list" the "Famines." No Famine school or wedding party should be safe for them.
And they worship the wrong god too!
An American, not US subject.
"You are being detained under the suspicion of being a Famine or a supporter of Famine."
As another x.inf.capt, I most always like your stuff.
I once upon a time had that slogan painted on the front of a VW bus that my wife and I used to flee the city.
Russia could cook up a five year plan for agricultural output. Hey, Ukraine has some potential.
Most people think, as a left over from the USSR, that Russia is always a food importer and really a constant needer of food imports. Historically this is anything but true. Even minus Ukraine, Russia has a large agricultural belt running from the western border right uo to the aouther Urals, and deep down along the Azov sea. In czarist times, Russia was a large food exporter. The USSR ended all that with collective agriculture and the war on peseants. But now it is over 2 decades since the USSR died, Russia indeed imports food from the EU and many other places, just like the USA imports all kinds of foods. But, Russia has an heavily underdeveloped Agricultural sector, it was hard to compete with EU imports due to under investment. Now that looks to change. Russia can, as it runs an account surplus, put real money, not printed, into it agriculture, creat local jobs and local income for companies and farmers. Will this fodd have a bit higher price tag, yes, of course. But time should drive that down. I know Ukraine was the breadbasket of europe for a thousand years, but Russia shars a large section of the black earth, and it runs deep into the areas south east of Moscow. A traveler in the 1500's who came from France and traveled that area called it a paradise and a vast rich agricultural paradise at that. It is still there, the Soviets fucked it all up!
Yup. Doesn't Russia control that vast area known as the 'World Island'? That very piece of rich land that the West is desperate to control?
@ Jack Burton:
Niet!
My people first, you fuck them!
ass: Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
:-)
Thank the Lord I can't understand you.
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The market, that's who.
Grow what you can in your kitchen garden, eat it, and develop your skills and knowledge base. Stretch after digging, too.
War, Pestilence, Famine..... what was the fourth thingy?
Profit!
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stupidity
Derivatives?
Let them eat Futures.
"... who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?"
They can grow cake.
An American, not US subject.
"SOYLENT GREEN IS PEOPLE!!!"
Oh... I thought PINK SLIME was people and soylent green was pea's on the side!
Looking at Americans, US food production would appear to be excessive anyway, so perhaps a reduction in production would facilitate a healthy reduction in US food consumption (and waste).
Americans are spoiled by the luxurious benefits provided by the MIC and GRC status.
Excessive production of Monsanto, soy and contaminated corn to feed this type of product does not enter in Russia - who likes to see their healthy citizens.
hehe.
Thanks to decades of high fructose corn syrup, preservatives, GMO crops, and roided up livestock
There's been WAY too many nut trees planted in California these last few years. It takes a lot of water to make an almond or a walnut.
Even the bees have been going nuts in the past and have been disappearing only to have growers shipping in bees by the billions to ensure pollination.
Nature is being pushed to its limits and some paleoclimatologsts believe California is returning to its long term weather.
In a forthcoming study from the California Fish and Wildlife Department on three key Emerald Triangle watersheds in Mendocino County in Northern California, researchers using satellite imagery found that pot cultivation had skyrocketed in the areas since 2009, rising between 75 percent and 100 percent. The three watersheds contain an average of 30,000 pot plants each and researchers estimate each plant consumes 6 gallons of water a day. At that rate, the plants were siphoning off 180,000 gallons of water per day in each watershed—all together more than 160 Olympic-sized swimming pools over the average 150-day growing cycle for outdoor plants. There are estimates of more than 1 million pot plants in Mendocino alone—not counting legal ones licensed for the medical market.
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/your-pot-habit-sucks-sal...
In a forthcoming study from the California Fish and Wildlife Department on three key Emerald Triangle watersheds in Mendocino County in Northern California, researchers using satellite imagery found that pot cultivation had skyrocketed in the areas since 2009, rising between 75 percent and 100 percent. The three watersheds contain an average of 30,000 pot plants each and researchers estimate each plant consumes 6 gallons of water a day. At that rate, the plants were siphoning off 180,000 gallons of water per day in each watershed—all together more than 160 Olympic-sized swimming pools over the average 150-day growing cycle for outdoor plants. There are estimates of more than 1 million pot plants in Mendocino alone—not counting legal ones licensed for the medical market.
http://www.motherjones.com/tom-philpott/2014/04/your-pot-habit-sucks-sal...
you're talkin' about my home territory, 'cept it's a bit north in Humoldt. Don't need no satellite - I fly a Cub low and slow a lot 'around the patch' - a ~60 mile radius around my local airport, and have seen the enormous growth in greenhouses. More than 30 years ago, during the 'oil crisis'', I wrote a working paper about watershed restoration that pointed out the real problem in California was not shortage of oill (which was a sort of a manufactured crisis at the time), but water.
So I was ahead of my time a little bit...
The good news is that right now, it is raining like hell - and has been off and on for a few weeks - in Northern California. We are actuallly ahead of the last two years at this time in rainfall. The central valley where most of the food production is, is still really fucked, and the water wars are gonna get worse, as in really ugly. Drawing from the central valley aquifers (ground water) is already a losing proposition, and in the south part of the valley (Kern county), salt water is intruding into the mostly depleted aquifers, and has been for a number of years.
As far as the 150-day growing cycle for outdoor plants - there is very little outdoor left, and it is now basically done for the year. But the greenhouses, where the bulk of maryjane is grown these days, operate year-around.
The only possibility of a solution, besides drastic revision of crops grown and watering practices (a lot of those fucking ag biz farms are STILL watering in broad daylight in 100+ weather) is desalinization plants - California has an 800 mile coastline with a LOT of water to the west called the Pacific Ocean. No free lunch, it takes a lot of capital investment and energy, but there are already a few cities running out of water...
One more droughty winter in the central valley, and it WILL effect your food prices - I'm stocking up now on what I can, but fresh stuff, got to get canning.
OMG!!! I won't be able to get almonds until the drought ends! How will I survive!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Paid $9 bucks for less than 1.5 pounds of raw almonds at Savemart the other day....I thought almonds were a birthright. Start hording!
How many almonds and walnuts will it take to fill the empty vaults at Ft. Knox. Nut Standard anyone. Which president will close the Nut Window? Can one eat nuts?
They might want to fix chestnut blight (on a larger scale) before going back to a nut standard.
I was wondering what the shelf-life of various nuts would be and found this very useful info:
"Although not a perfect test, your nose is usually the most reliable instrument to tell if your nuts have gone bad. Rancid nuts smell, the best way to describe the odor is that spoiled nuts smell like paint."
I reckon that settles it, except that California nuts are probably an exception to any rule. Getting your nose close enough to the nuts to test them might require some calisthenic proficiency.
The new tulips?
RESTRICT YOURSELF TO WHITE TRUFFLES AND BELUGA CAVIAR!!!
THESE ARE HARD TIMES BUT WE MUST GET THROUGH IT!!
caviar & mashed potatoes
I wonder where Marijuana is on that list....grumpy potheads....
Arable land is a finite resource that is increasingly being built on versus farmed.
A normally dry region like California has been artificially irrigated by tapping onto aquifers.
The Great Plains have been so productive because for eons it was an un-plowed storehouse of decaying plant material and buffalo manure (organic matter).
With intense farming and fertilization salts build up in the soil as the organic matter is depleted. More and more water is needed to try and flush the salts below the root zone.
Think of arable land in much the same way you think of crude oil; not as finite but certainly not infinitely productive.
There will be diminishing returns over time regardless of how much water is available.
Artificial fertilizers require oil to produce, as well as the herbicides, pesticides, and the machinery used to till, harvest, transport, and process crops.
With regards to: population growth, water, available land, oil, and production levels - it is a house-of-cards that is being built long term.
"As seasons fly, a seed may bloom against the odds... maybe so.
In another life, another universe maybe, but nothing grows... nothing grows here."
Satan - Another Universe
Great comment eb. It's amazing how many don't understand anymore (because they are so removed from the Earth) that arable land is not an infinitely giving resource. Crude oil based fertilization is a great way to kill your land.
Here in Goiás, Mato Grosso and Mato Grosso do Sul have two harvests per year.
Things will alternate with corn, soy beans, sunflower.
Tillage, you do not need to plow the land, and there pantadeiras specific harvesters for each soil type.
Every season you do not cut the leftovers, they incorporate nutrients and protect the soil from solar radiation.
I suggest you get more out of EMBRAPA site.
The technology developed here is being used by Chinese in Africa in large farms, the soil type is similar, the amount of rainfall almost the same.
EMBRAPA is a State institution and Petrobras.
These are things that only Brazil can do.
Ever heard of Embaer?
hehe.
There are farms in Europe that have been cultivated for thousands of years and are more productive than American farms.
America's plentiful land led to strip mining the fertility from Colonial times down to the early 20th century but this came to a screeching halt during the depression (dust bowl) years. Since then, more and more attention has been paid to protecting and building up soil fertility, organic farming etc.
At the present time, it is possible to grow all the food we need without pesticides and without artificial fertilizers. The cost is similar to agribusiness grown food, but it is sustainable and the quality is better.
I agree. Problem being many farms are corporate farms where production is #1 versus sustainability.
The ethanol lobby isn't helping any either. Bushels/acre = $$$$
Let's hope sustainable quality can win out against corporate/GMO.
@ Armageddon addahere:
His argument is right, absolutely right!
You forgot to say one thing:
Producers are small, they are who supply feeding a country.
Large farms are export oriented.
Find out a little about agriculture in Brazil, states like Parana, Santa Catarina and Rio Grande do Sul (the North, the South pasture is the best beef in the world, the Russians love, is bordered by Argentina).
You will be surprised at the statistics you will find.
The Brazil and Russia do not need to do much to fuck the world, just stop with exports in the case of Russia, oil and gas, in the case of Brazil, soybean, corn, niobium, iron, gold, whores, corn, etc. Kkkkkkkkk!
:-)
nem + nem - a você de mina parte. :-)
GMO bitchez. Mutate a cactus with an apple and grow some juicy Granny Smiths in the desert
not apples, but CACTUS PEARS
The farmers in Pittsburgh will replace California farming. Ask them when they are sober..
Pennsylvania has awsome fertile soil.
But not the mild winters and long growing season that California does. We're going to need a lot more victory gardens.
No Russia won't but Europe will, IF THEY WANT TOO. Europe has taken the brunt of the sanctions with lots of produce rejected by Russia over the Ukraine sanction retaliation. I have heard through relatives that quality of what is sold in Russia is going down while prices and availability is going down (spotty). Since Nuland and Company started the Ukraine thing maybe the EU should send her the bill for the compensation being paid to farmers for the lost sales to Russia. If not then enjoy the inflation as prices soar.
And we can pay European farmers with digits on a computer screen.
Ukraine may not like it, or should I say Kiev, 8 million Ukies are ethnic Russians. But their major export markets were Russian. Take that away and Kiev is fucked. Industrial production was directly tied into the Russian economy, no EU state wants or needs this production. Period! Agricultural exports to Russia were also huge, the major market! Loss of both, and no demand from the EU, I suggest you pull your money out of any Ukraine stocks folks. No markets, mean unemployment!
You like your screws and rivets, you can eat your screws and rivets.
We like good wine, vodka, potatoes, ham, beef from Argentina, corn and soybeans in Brazil, Gold of South Africa, etc. Chinese trinkets .
Ass. Vladimir Vladimirovich Putin.
hehe.
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The DeadBasket of America.
Maybe California will have to finally switch away from (already subsidized) water intensive crops like big agri-business rice,
and to more sustainable agriculture,
and other regions stop converting farm lands to strip malls,
and stop using front yards as eco-unfriendly Round-up ready grass patches.
Or, more likely, we will just all have to pay much more or else start eating anti-inflation BLS-approved food substitutes.
(cardboard anyone?)
*« .. and stop using front yards as eco-unfriendly Round-up ready grass patches. »*
Yes, fully agree. And stop mowing weeds, a number of them being edible, nutritious, cost nothing, often are medicinal, cost nothing, with a superb natural ornemental architecture, cost nothing, no maintenance cost, cost nothing; and then send mower to pathetic compulsory neurosisland where it belongs (well, yes, that would cost something : could be customised for other use, if possible -- but it's noisy and it stinks).
The South can grow anything cali can, more and better. When the price for food per acre exceeds tobacco, cotton and soybeans.
It could happen.
(Of course soybeans are food, but look up how many other end products they go in to)
you need for that 3-5 years, money and political decision...
Farmers can switch from nut trees to row crops in a few weeks. And each farmer can make the decision on his own.
There is the subsidy question though ...
Soybeans are NOT food. They have negative nutrition unless they are fermented before consumption.
"So if the drought continues into the foreseeable future (and this is a real possibility), here’s a really interesting question: who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?"
How about all the farms in other states that were put out of business by California's low cost produce?
I can imagine small scale, family owned organic farms all across the country furnishing delicious healthy fresh produce to local markets.
OK no I can't because consumers won't pay the extra nickel it would cost but it's nice to dream.
(I'm sure Walmart and the supermarket chains are already searching South America for cheap produce)
The interstate commerce clause in the US Constitution is the single largest empowerment the evil that has emanated from DC over the past two centuries. If Washington has progressed from globalization on an interstate level to to NAFTA WTO and now TPP/TTIP I doubt there is any hope one the horizon.
How is the constitution better than the Articles of Confederation?
It's not, but that's been a minority opinion for a long time.
do we really need california to make Snickers bars?
Chocolate don't grow in CA.
So if the drought continues into the foreseeable future (and this is a real possibility), here’s a really interesting question: who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?
ANSWER: All the other states who used to produce it prior to WW2 and who were priced outn of the market by water sold under cost and gasoline sold on the cheap. (Personally I can't wait to see gtruck farming come back to the east coast.)
And people's back gardens.
Start a Victory Garden.
"who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?" Non producing fat asses. That's who.
I am sick and tired of irresponsible people jeopardizing the health and welfare of hard working, God fearing Americans. We need tough new laws to curtail such behavior, and rigorous enforcement.
No spewing ebola viruses in public places! No shooting kids in schools! No wasting water in California!
Anyone wantonly oozing ebola viruses in public should be sentenced to 500 hours of community service working in soup kitchens, food pantries, and delivering meals-on-wheels to elderly shut-ins. Teach them what it means to participate in the community!
Any kid who shoots his classmates then turns the gun on himself should be sentenced to 500 hours of grief counseling the victims' families. Teach him what mental anguish is all about!
Anyone caught wasting precious water resources by flushing multiple times in California should be waterboarded by trained CIA professionals. Teach them how important water can be under stressful conditions!
Thank you Zerohedge for allowing me to air these grievances on a Saturday afternoon when my team is losing and the damned beer is running low already!
"Higher prices at the grocery store of high-value California crops like nuts, wine grapes and dairy foods are driven more by market demand than by the drought.”
what the h*ll is this mumbo-jumbo?
if there are no high-value crops because of the drought how is market demand satisfied? higher prices?
Egads, what would we EVER do if the California wine grapes went to raisins?
I think the crucial point the author is missing is that, much like the non-perishable commodities (gold, copper, oil, etc.) the derivatives market is playing an increasingly critical and highly beneficial role in moderating both the price of and the demand for 'hard' agricultural products. And much like those 'hard commodities', I expect we will in the coming years see a dramatic drop in the demand for 'physical' food, as investors and end users increasingly switch to buying derivative products, food ETFs, etc., which are easier to store and trade.
This should result in both a significant drop in the prices of 'food' (real and digital products) as well as neutralizing any possible negative impact resulting from a reduction in 'physical food output' due to the California drought.
food ETFs and BITcorn -- yummy
Best post of the day, Mr. Huxley!
What people overlook is that the California drought situation is a liquidity problem, easily handled by Ms. Yellen.
Very true. We know so much more about monetary policy than we did even 6 years ago, and its these types of advances in science that make the modern world largely immune to natural disasters - droughts, earthquakes, hurricanes, etc.
Gold prices are the perfect example. They want them down, BAM, they are down.
Oh, I think you're being too cynical. Alternatively, you could say that gold pricing represents the leading edge in our society's rapid advances in monetary science and technology, and that the lower price of gold is due to the discovery of improved modern methods of purchase that go so far beyond just 'buying it and having it in your possession'. As these tools become commonplace in the agricultural sector and the need to 'buy food and have it in your possession' is replaced by growing acceptance of the use of derivative products, leasing, etc. I expect we'll see a similar drop in food prices.
I think if it was merely technological advances, we would see some real improvement and lowering of cost structure of gold mines.
I think it is because of gold's monetary aspects, or the war against them.
I think what has changed is our ability to leverage debt to a lot larger degree than before, on both a personal level and a banking level.
It used to be that mortgage costs should never go over 30% of net. Then it became 30% of Gross. Then it became 45-50% of Gross. Then with Negative Amort, the sky is the limit.
The same with Bankstering, leverage, repothication and Fractional Lending increase the leverage of what One unit of "money" can accomplish. We are way outside the box now. I don't think that bit of "technology" has helped society.
It will be the Asbestos of the Bankstering Industry....
Fiat water !?!!!
there will be 7 years of plenty and 7 years of famine.
stock up is the said advise given to the pharoh and he did while the other nations starved.
what's been will be again folks.
So were going to start eating Derivities instead of food? Good luck with that one. Here in Pennsylvania, we have plenty of rain and plenty of Corn and other crops. What we really need is to close our borders to Illegals and Obama imported Muslim refugees that do nothing for our country yet soak up our resources thanks to the welfare and foodstamps they receive at tax payer expense. Think its bad now, it's only going to get worse as obama continues to leave our borders open and our airlines filled with illegals refugees from Islamic countries. Dick Morris new book explains how Obama plans to flood this country with millions more illegals and refugees thus guranteeing the Democrats never lose another election.
It goes a lot deeper than Obama importing Dem voters. He just represents another stage of the Frankfurt School's goal of destroying the ethnic cohesion of White/Christian America.
Kalifornia has been overated for a long time. It's filled with Millions of Illegals that are leaching off the working class folks. If it wasn't for the High tech sector, Kalifornia wouldn't be anymore.
Soon California will be a "Water free" zone.
Much of the state is already a Gun free zone, and prepper free zone, and
REALITY FREE zone
They're also banning home-schooling, so it'll soon be a Christian-free zone.
When that happens, God's final judgement on California will be very close.
Eleven short words. 'Do What Thou Wilt Shall Be The Whole Of The Law'.
Those that adhere to that Philosophy should also remember:
"Your right to swing your fist ends at the tip of my nose!"
If there is a divine purpose to what is happenng in California, then let it serve the purpose of bringing this once greater nation back to God's table where the knife is used for sharing.
Regardless of the deviations displayed by the USA and the enemies its leaders are generating, there is still a reservoir of good people to save this nation from becoming another Sodom and Gomorah.
Problem is, God's people are slowly being silenced by the Luciferians, eg. present-day Houston.
Yes. You can spout off about anything you like. But not me.
good quality meat is not cheap.
There are many other inexpensive sources of protien but we are spoiled.
One of my favorites!
http://chapul.com/
People in the US eat vegetables, rice, nuts and fruit???????
I thought it was all pink slime and rubbery cheese
The article indicates exports; not consumption.
For fruit nuts and rice, South Carolina can grow its production considerably. Considering all the replenishing aquifers in the state (and the 4-inches-per-month average rainfall), this state has lots of sun and lots of water. Soil isnt as good, but this can be addressed if the end-market prices increase.
Is this an article about cost-push inflation, 'cause I never really understood the term.
Also, most of the rest of the country is growing CORN, so now maybe they'll go back to growing other stuff? Problem is, cali has the totally awesome climate to grow all those bodacious goodies. If there were only another river or lake they could steal water from.
Who needs Cali when we have Kroger, Tom Thumb and many more sources to chose from ....
/s
Scary but true.
Well with a skyrocketing 3rd world population I would suspect that the USA will require more and more of food production.
In fact an important point is the WATER SHORTAGES that increasing 3rd world population
demographics predict for the USSA.
Cali is on its way to a population of 50 million or more.
3rd world people are NOT into conservation, ecology, so enjoy the future.
http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-10-23/its-very-extreme-drought-drug-c...
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Overpopulation in the United States will become THE single greatest issue facing Americans in the 21st century. We either solve it proactively or nature will solve it brutally for us via water shortages, energy crisis, air pollution, gridlock, species extinction and worse.
U.S. population will double from 300 million to 600 million on its way to 1 billion in the lifetime of a child born today if we fail to change course.
- Frosty Wooldridge (2000)
Where will the short-fall be made up?
As the prices of fruit and veggies go up farmers all around N America will adapt by growing different crops and cutting back on anything where there's little profit.
But it's the backyard gardeners who'll really increase production. And just think, the Democrats are trying to ban the production of home-grown food by using various laws such as the "Safe Food Act". Banning the saving of seeds, banning the swapping of seeds, banning the giving away or trading over the backyard fence. People have been doing this for centuries; but now the Democrats are trying to make it illegal.
Maybe more waste will be composted, fewer chemicals will be used, and we'll be getting a little more exercise. Overall, this move towards growing at least some of your own food is a positive move.
Am I alone in suggesting that should El Nino give rise to regional flooding - not an uncommon occurance - the problem will disappear overnight? As in the reservoirs will be filled and the water table rise.
Also is solar-powered desalination not a viable option, at least a partial solution?
Before Fukushima that would have been an alternative
Just use brawndo.
Its got electrolytes.
http://youtu.be/-Vw2CrY9Igs
http://www.washingtontimes.com/news/2014/oct/24/fec-democrat-pushes-cont...
FEC Democrat pushes for controls on Internet political speech
Opponents: ‘Nothing short of a Chinese censorship board’
By Stephen Dinan - The Washington Times - Friday, October 24, 2014
The FEC deadlocked in a crucial Internet campaign speech vote announced Friday, leaving online political blogging and videos free of many of the reporting requirements attached to broadcast ads — for now.
While all three GOP-backed members voted against restrictions, they were opposed by the three Democratic-backed members, including FEC Vice Chair Ann M. Ravel, who said she will lead a push next year to try to come up with new rules government political speech on the Internet.
http://www.nytimes.com/2014/10/18/us/obama-administration-to-expedite-gr...
Obama to admit 100,000 Haitians to the U.S. to join family members.
The last time I was in San Francisco only saw pigeons, those rats with wings, in my concept are worse than flies.
You do not see any wild bird.
Not sparrows!
May believe that I am a guy who fixes things in nature, it caught my attention.
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Let another clash!
Putin X France (above).
:-)
Time to send that Columbia River south!
Yeah that Hanford radioactivity doesn't matter
"... who will make up for any shortfall in California’s gigantic contribution to US food production?"
F.ck California and it's sh.t head population.
We don't need you di.k heads.
We'll get our rice from Arkansas, Pecans from Alabama, milk from every other State ...
Go and build your high speed trains to nowhere instead of de-salination plants using the plentiful waters of the Pacific Ocean.
You make me sick you fuck.ng liberal shitheads!!!
I recommmend an immediate ban on food exports; otherwise, food will be exported by the high and greedy regardless of the severity of domestic shortages in order to obtain foreign currencies and --not to put too fine a point on it-- attempt thereby to gloss over their many crimes.
Yes, I know that this is, currently, unlikely to happen prior to catastrophic events, despite the fact that it is surely the most rational course for any nation to take. Exports should be confined purely to excess production; otherswise, an overall, negative-feedback, economic loop develops. Thus any other course results in a net loss that contributes to the downward spiral of any given nation --as taught, of course, by the lessons of U.S. history in the course of the last four decades of "globalization."
Wouldn't their crops be contaminated sooner or later, if they are desalinating are they removing radiation?
This drought in California is bad, but Texas has been in drought conditions for years now. Our lakes and rivers are still way below normal levels, and it'll take biblical levels of rainfall to replenish them.
Beef prices are through the roof because of the worst of the drought 2 years ago, which resulted in thousands of cattle being slaughtered or shipped north (where they actually died due to not being acclimated to the earlier than expected freeze that year). The other factor with beef prices, of course, is the BS ethanol mandate which is raising the price of corn, the main feed for beef.
Back to the point, nobody's crying about the Texas drought, nobody's declaring end of times. When fires enveloped the state we didn't even get help from this corrupt administration (Obama sent the help to Mexico, true story).
In my opinion, I could care less about California drought, because they brought this on themselves with idiotic ideas and hair-brained schemes. If farmers can't grow in California, maybe it's time they booted the elected officials who decided it's more important to give water to a bait fish than use it for irrigation.
Damn right Tex.
(...could NOT care less...)
I up "arrowed" you for correct use of English language (I am tired of seeing people say/write "I could care less" when they actually mean the opposite). Rant off.
Damned right on that!
Calicornya is a desert! What made it productive was bringing water from the Sacramento delta into the central valley.
Then the greenie weenies put an end to that to save some little fish that got sucked into the pumps.
Now Calicornya is turning back into it's natural state: A DESERT!
Strange, they still seem to have enough water to keep those lawns green...
TONTO SAY: OKEY DOKEY KEMOSABE!
Sam Houston fit in with his Native Bride and family. Was one of the best Indian Agents right behind the Gentleman Fort Hawkins was named for.
The Better Old Ben. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benjamin_Hawkins
Just tell those dam Californians to PAY MORE CARBON TAXES!!!!!!!!! Goldman will figure out what to do with the money to fix Global warning I's tells ya!.
So, It's all about the water eh?? Check out this little tidbit..
http://www.uhuh.com/1calfraud/stacks/bixman.htm
The 1% will be able to afford to buy what they want from where it is still available.
The rest of us will learn to eat what is still affordable, or if we are prudent, what we grow ourselves
I just planted my iPad....
How does it feel to be Ethiopian? Eat the flies if you're really hungry!
I managed a large marina in California, then the environmentalists won a court case, forcing the Bureau of Reclamation to release water on down the rivers so the salmon that existed a couple hundred years ago might make a comeback. That water flowing out of reservoirs built for storing irrigation water is now free flowing down the rivers and on out to the Pacific Ocean. The farms, orchards and vineyards that relied on that water have now dried up. But don't worry... there's plenty of water for the non-existant salmon.
Meanwhile, they're ripping out orchards that took generations to grow, and turning those trees into firewood. And if you don't move to Belize, your local source of food will be flies.
Yeah, these pesky environmentalists were all wrong when they warned that big dams seriously distort hydrology, that big AG depletes water resources and that fracking pollutes ground and surface water. Oh wait...