California farmers last year lost an estimated $1.7 billion and fallowed thousands of acres of land as a result of the ongoing mega-drought gripping the west. Collapse of the entire food system ahead…
In the fall, rice fields in the Sacramento Valley usually shine golden brown as they await harvesting. This year, however, many fields were left covered with bare dirt.
“It’s a disaster,” said rice farmer Don Bransford. “This has never happened. Never. And I’ve been farming since 1980.”
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Bransford typically farms about 1,800 acres of rice. But the drought was so severe this year that water deliveries to area farms were drastically cut. Bransford, board president of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District, didn’t plant a single acre. Many other farms went idle as well.
California has just gone through the state’s driest three-year period on record, and this year the drought has pushed the fallowing of farmland to a new high.
In a new report on the drought’s economic effects, researchers estimated that California’s irrigated farmland shrank by 752,000 acres, or nearly 10%, in 2022 compared with 2019 — the year prior to the drought. That was up from an estimated 563,000 acres of fallowed farmland last year.
Nearly all the farmland that was left unplanted and dry falls within the Central Valley, and a large portion of it in the valley’s northern half. The state’s main rice-growing regions in Sutter, Colusa and Glenn counties were hit particularly hard, the report said, with about 267,000 acres fallowed this year.
“The severity of the ongoing drought has been unprecedented for the Sacramento Valley,” said Josué Medellín-Azuara, a water resources economist and associate professor of civil and environmental engineering at UC Merced. “It’s been more severe over the past year, and you have the cumulative effects of the previous dry years.”
Medellín-Azuara and colleagues from UC Merced, UC Davis and the Public Policy Institute of California prepared the report for the California Department of Food and Agriculture. They estimated changes in the acreage of irrigated land by surveying irrigation districts, analyzing water data and reviewing satellite data.
They found that water deliveries in the Central Valley were cut by nearly 43% in both 2021 and 2022. Growers partially made up for those reductions by pumping more groundwater.
Gross crop revenues fell $1.7 billion, or 4.6%, this year. Revenues of the state’s food processing and manufacturing industries declined nearly $3.5 billion, or 7.8%.
An estimated 12,000 agricultural jobs were lost, representing a 2.8% decline.
“Those farmworkers suffer the most during the droughts,” Medellín-Azuara said.
The researchers said California lacks sufficient programs to assist laborers who lose farm jobs. They said it’s crucial “to identify and assist communities that rely on seasonal and permanent agricultural jobs that are vulnerable to drought.”
The amount of farmland left dry this year surpassed the peak of fallowed land during California’s last drought from 2012 to 2016.
Medellín-Azuara said the situation could have been worse this year if reservoirs that supply the San Joaquin Valley hadn’t risen somewhat with rains in late 2021, making more water deliveries possible. Still, the losses for agriculture were severe.
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“It’s a really remarkable hit,” said Daniel Sumner, a professor of agricultural economics at UC Davis. He said the effects on the farm economy in the Sacramento Valley, which typically has more water and fares better than the San Joaquin Valley, were especially pronounced, representing the biggest contraction he has seen in the region in decades.
High milk prices helped mitigate the overall decline in farm revenues, Sumner said. And farmers made various adjustments to cope with reduced water supplies.
“We cut back on cotton. We cut back on some other crops. And the fruits and vegetables that we’re most known for, we continue to produce most of them,” Sumner said. “California agriculture is incredibly resilient.”
But pressure on agriculture is increasing as climate change unleashes more intense and longer-lasting droughts, as well as heat waves that can harm crop yields.
During the past two years, growers have dramatically increased groundwater pumping in the Central Valley, including many areas where water levels are declining and a growing number of household wells have gone dry. The researchers estimated that farms have pumped 27% more groundwater this year than in 2019.
Such heavy reliance on wells will face new limitations in the coming years. Local water agencies across the San Joaquin Valley are required to begin reining in overpumping under California’s Sustainable Groundwater Management Act, which requires them to balance water use with available supplies by 2040. Researchers have projected that meeting the law’s sustainability rules will require that vast areas of farmland be taken out of production permanently.
For now, farmers with wells have been able to rely on aquifers. But in areas where rice farms have long depended solely on flows from the Sacramento River, many growers have no wells. Without water flowing in canals, farmers were left without options.
California harvested the state’s smallest rice crop since the severe drought of 1977-78, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture.
“We typically plant about 100,000 acres of rice in our district. And this year, we planted 1,000 acres,” said Thad Bettner, general manager of the Glenn-Colusa Irrigation District. “It’s just a massive, massive impact.”
With the Sacramento River watershed parched and Shasta Lake at low levels, wildlife officials dedicated some water to try to help the spawning of endangered winter-run Chinook salmon, which contributed to the cuts in water deliveries to farms, Bettner said.
“Unfortunately, those protections for winter-run didn’t help the fish,” Bettner said. “We’re seeing, basically, very few of them survive.”
Now many rice farmers are feeling uneasy about what might happen if the drought persists next year, Bettner said. “We’re very concerned about how many small family farms that we have in our district continue to stay in business.”
Bransford said he has crop insurance and can receive compensation for the rice he couldn’t plant. He has kept a couple of employees on his payroll. But much of the area’s farming economy has shriveled, leaving many laborers suffering.
“It’s devastating,” Bransford said. “The greatest impacts are to the farmworkers.”
“They’re an embedded, important part of our community,” he said. “And the problem we have as owners of farms is if these people leave, there’s no replacement.”
California farms primarily produce short- and medium-grain Japonica rice, which is used for sushi and other dishes. The rice is sold domestically and also exported to Asia and other parts of the world.
The area’s vast rice fields have long provided habitat for migrating birds, which over the last century have lost most of the natural wetlands where they once stopped to rest and feed.
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Usually, after growers harvest their crops, the fields are left with chopped-up rice straw and fallen kernels. The farmers will again send water flowing to fields, attracting geese, ducks and other birds, which arrive in large flocks to feed.
With many fields now bone dry, Bransford and other farmers say they’re concerned about how the birds and other species will fare.
The California Rice Commission said this year’s rice crop is estimated to be about half the size of a typical harvest. The organization said the drastic water cuts have also dried up what were once reliable habitats for more than 200 wildlife species, among them migrating ducks and geese, which typically depend on rice fields for a large portion of their food during the fall and winter.
Tim Johnson, the commission’s president and CEO, said the lack of water now threatens millions of wetland-dependent birds, and could affect the migratory path along the Pacific Flyway. He said while the long-term environmental effects are unknown, rice farmers have been working with government agencies and conservation groups to provide as much habitat as possible and “assist in tracking the impacts this historic drought will have on waterbirds, with the goal of using that science to better help the Pacific Flyway in the years ahead.”
On the west side of the Sacramento Valley, waterbirds typically move between wildlife refuges and rice fields. Because the local wildlife refuges had their water deliveries cut this year, Bransford said, the irrigation district sold the government additional water to help nourish the habitats.
With fewer rice fields to turn to, the birds will likely be concentrated where there is water, Bransford said. And such concentrations of birds can lead to outbreaks of avian botulism or other deadly illnesses. A wave of avian flu has already left millions of birds dead in parts of North America, and has been circulating in California.
“Hopefully, it will not have an impact on the waterfowl. But there is potential for that,” Bransford said.
Because migrating birds are also encountering parched landscapes elsewhere, he said, “it’s really going to be difficult on them.”
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While the dry fields show the drought’s immediate toll, farmers expect it could take a year to determine how severe the ecological ripple effects turn out to be. [UCMerced, LA Times]
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As both parties (even in RD Florida and not just California) refuse to shut down the public schools, vaxxine centers or discard the childhood GD/A$D inducing vaxxine schedule, my first thought is “imagine talking a type one diabetic out of having diabetes” when the provaxx GOP makes these meaningless discussions to their young vaxx victims: https://www.msn.com/en-us/health/other/marjorie-taylor-greene-tried-to-talk-to-trans-kids-she-failed-miserably/ar-AA14H0uo?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c04bb2ca752247f989e5a0795276cd9a
And even under pro-rioting/pro-outrage AT bills and Pro Neph1lim-L1fe Roe V Wade overturn, carcinogenic silicone breast implants are still allowed on minors under 18 according to this article – still think the GOP-p is going to save your kids from surgeries, let alone vaxxines they fully support on both parties? https://www.advocate.com/transgender/2022/9/28/more-teens-get-breast-implants-trans-top-surgery
I warn that Florida will be the next California, and its domestic population (those who are loyal to the politicians and governors – and the braindead idolators who think a Guantanamo Bay torture advisor is Jesus or something) will be utterly helpless against it.
Travis (Prepared Homestead) warns that the China “pro freedom protests” just like the AT bills seem staged/recorded by CCP drones with high quality camera footage, the AT “child saving” bills are being staged to turn every state into a North Carolina, while “anti CCP”protests are being staged to delude the world into thinking we’ll never have another plandemic. Both by the UN/WEF?
Sickening militarized mental hellth and handcuffing children as young as 5 in Mystery Babylon’s peninsula of Florida: https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/she-looks-like-a-baby-why-do-kids-as-young-as-5-or-6-still-get-arrested-at-schools/ar-AATGuAu?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=4667d2a2768947738ed4560547d7e80c
All the sick and disgusting pro-insane-asylum, pro-injection “Christians” including my parents sadly, might be left behind after the rapture for supporting and using their children’s (in this case my youngest brother with IED and multiple mental hospitalizations) violent behavior to support pharmakeia and laugh at their pharmakeia demon possession victims. All “mental illness” is demon possession/D1V0C and NO m.h. can “fix” that, sorry con-servatives.
“When children act out, there’s something else going on. Maybe they’re being affected by family problems, medical troubles, disabilities, abuse or violence. In Kaia’s case, her family says, it was her sleep disorder.”
Satanic pro-m.h./psychiatry “Christians” and their false christ god(s): https://rumble.com/vpery4-dont-worry-trump-will-save-the-world-.html
East Asian/Japanese takeover of the United States – for those left behind to suffer the wrath of God? Along with vaxxine hydra vulgaris? https://rumble.com/vnr00y-altering-the-human-dna-with-hydra-to-make-man-imortal-new-years-eve-show.html
https://rumble.com/vnqv9a-hydra-in-the-demon-juice-will-bring-imortality-to-humans.html
D1V0C seen in the eyes of this Australian woman: https://rumble.com/vlwzdi-d-i-v-o-c-means-possession-by-an-evil-spirt-a-malevolent-soul-in-hebrew-tha.html
https://healthimpactnews.com/2022/you-are-being-watched-more-security-cameras-per-capita-in-the-u-s-than-in-china-silicon-valley-whistle-blower/
“Americans today seem to be mostly oblivious and unconcerned that they are being watched, listened to, and recorded every day by the the Big Tech Globalists.”
“One of the things Aman discussed was the fact that collecting data on children is a “BIG BUSINESS,” and parents are unwittingly supplying this data to Big Tech by using their products, such as the “Talk Pedometer.”
“This obviously opens up more doors for the State and the Child Welfare system to monitor parents and be able to medically kidnap their children if they are not raising their children according to pre-determined standards, as these parents are using devices connected to the Internet in their own home allowing Big Tech to spy on them.”
Florida will be the next California and sheeple will blame “wokeness” and “the libs” for what both Masonic political parties have orchestrated.
Disturbing article predicting housing crises/housing wars in several Florida cities – right after RD and his handlers basically call Florida a “utopia”: https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/realestate/7-florida-cities-that-could-be-headed-for-a-housing-crisis/ss-AA14DV0I?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=c6788e194c724f9aaa6bfcb617b6d9d2
“Florida seems to be a state that people are always flocking to and never leaving, with its temperate weather, great beaches and lots of excellent attractions. However, even Florida is feeling the results of market forces, which are increasing mortgage rates, driving up home prices, and thus driving out people. In fact, the Florida cities on this list are showing alarming signs that could be pointing toward a housing crisis.”
“In order to find the Florida cities showing cause for concern, GOBankingRates looked at the largest 200 cities in terms of total housing units and some crucial factors such as percentage of mortgages that are between 30 and 90+ days delinquent and homeowner and renter vacancy rates. Data was drawn from the Consumer Financial Protection Bureau, the Consumer Protection Bureau, and RealtyTrac.”
Rothschild owned news outlet – same outlet whose chief of MAGA praises the MRNA bioweapons and same governor who loves the bioweapons and is solidly pro MMR vaxxine – portrays FL as a flawless utopia as its children die and are permanently disabled by childhood/public school vaxxines including the “safer smaller real vaxxines” such as TDAP/MMR/DTAP/DTP/Meningitis shots/etc.
Republicans feed democrats – I Pet Goat 2, bush morphs into obama. Dunce caps to grad caps and vice versa.
https://www.msn.com/en-us/news/us/florida-ag-says-it-s-not-rocket-science-why-so-many-americans-are-flocking-to-sunshine-state/ar-AA14C8b1?ocid=msedgntp&cvid=fbc8b0dbcce4456da209a1a179b159e6
Total silence on the Baker Act cops seizing extremely violent autistics/those with explosive outbursts or threats of shooting up schools.
” “When we saw people not respecting cops and other folks defunding their police, we gave them raises. When we saw a rash of folks rushing into stores and committing mob thefts, we did something about it. We made it easier to prosecute those people,” she continued.”
Florida: the Rothschild Israel of the USA? Medical kidnapping of children is perfectly legal in FL, and not one Florida parent has been discouraged or banned from vaxxinating their children with SADS/sudden death syndrome/severe violent autism. “Government of the people” = false savior government of the sheeple.
“”We saw other states cramming down on their citizens and taking away their rights. We did something about it. You know, this is a government of the people. They want to make sure those that they elect to office have their backs. And in Florida, we’ve got their backs,” Moody continued.”
“Law and Order” includes letting Florida parents willingly take out their children with DTAP/MMR/RD-approved MRNA jabs if they’re foolish enough.
“The state attorney general added in her remarks on Sunday that Florida is a “law and order state” that supports its police forces and will carry out the rule of law.”
Desantis is a Guantanamo Bay criminal who force-fed Ensure and non-halal meats to civilian Muslims who never committed actual crimes/were never part of ISIS or whatever. RD is Roman Catholic.
“”And we will say … be aware if you move here. Florida is a law and order state. So if you’re a criminal and you’re residing in Florida, you may want to get out,” she warned. ”
Desantis and Trump (and their Democrat secret allies) will pose as false christs/false saviors for America Mystery Babylon as the C0VID measures and jabs will never go away til JC returns.
I read your links.Only a couple are spot on.
Fact the child gestapo will only be stopped if disbanded defended.
This agencies creation is a violation of the US Constitution
More specifically the fourth admendment.The right to face your accuser.This agency is on flagrant violation of this.
You do not have the right to substitute an agency that protects the accuser by substituting itself.
They have violated the safety and security of kids and families by allowing anyone who can dial a phone to use them to initiate an investigation.
This power was given to terrorists rapists murders stalkers.
The agency was created in the 70s in response to mob investigations.The supposed uptick in violence from the mob was coming from those who infiltrated it chiefly the termite brigade.There counterpart in the infiltrated fed no doubt suggested this.
It was carried national to prevent lawsuits from discrimination.
The only way to stop it is to disband it and defend it.Plus every family effected should be able to recieve at least a million dollars apiece.Yes to every family member.
Either that or everyone whose doors they show up at simply kills them.
There can be no in-between the damage is far to extensive.
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You took your mask off.See I followed your links.Including one that
states people care more about the outside (vanity)versus what’s on the inside.Nice cover for those who torture.Dont give me the do goody good Bs you dont know.You do.
Lies about brain cancer to obtain entry as well as payment.
In reality the use of a nail gun was at play.See brain surgery isn’t done in one’s home just torture.
Your crap about non halal food was only one of the give aways.Lets see your fear of a tdap vaccine.Been on the market for years.
Cant keep on subject to save your life.
Do tell what passed you off the most the fact you couldn’t use a plasma donor scar and pass them off as a drug addict.Yeah I know all about the court shopping y’all do.Hum maybe you couldn’t cause enough shame to force them into a burial.
Got news for you they wear the scars with pride.Even there missing tooth.Had to be pulled due to the pain inflicted.Guess you saw that as a victory.It truly wasn’t but you are and will figure that out.
See you’ll are cowards fighting those who are not cowards.
You took your mask off.See I followed your links.Including one that
states people care more about the outside (vanity)versus what’s on the inside.Nice cover for those who torture.Dont give me the do goody good Bs you dont know.You do.
Lies about brain cancer to obtain entry as well as payment(insurance fraud).
In reality the use of a nail gun was at play.See brain surgery isn’t done in one’s home just torture.
Your crap about non halal food was only one of the give aways.Lets see your fear of a tdap vaccine.Been on the market for years.
Cant keep on subject to save your life.
Do tell what pissed you off the most the fact you couldn’t use a plasma donor scar and pass them off as a drug addict.Yeah I know all about the court shopping y’all do.Hum maybe you couldn’t cause enough shame to force them into wearing a burqa.
Got news for you they wear the scars with pride.Even there missing tooth.Had to be pulled due to the pain inflicted.Guess you saw that as a victory.It truly wasn’t but you are and will figure that out.
See you’ll are cowards fighting those who are not cowards.
The HAARP barge they moved fro Seattle to 1,000 miles off the coast of northern California begat the 14 year old drought. You could tune in the U.S. Weather satellite feed and watch it deflect moisture laden clouds to the south and Mexico and beyond. I did for years.
https://realclimatescience.com/wp-content/uploads/2018/02/2017-12-29182117_shadow-1024×323.png
Drought is the normal for this area…see the pic.
First off rice
normally isn’t grown in areas that are irrigated to any extent.It naturally grows and is planted in flood plains.
Planted in the right spot it needs precious little irrigation or tending.
Growing mass quantity of rice in this area has and is bad farming practice.It would be ok to grow rice for the local regional market in wetter years.They need to switch to more drought tolerant crops.Should have done
it years ago.
Majority of Floridians in our area (rural Florida) are sadly too stupid, overly optimistic and unaware of the food shortages to grow anything on their gardens that can be eaten – the easiest choices are sweet potatoes, papayas, and drought tolerant vegetables and grains/cowpeas. They think a literal Guantanamo Bay torture advisor and force-feeder (RD) will magically make food appear on Florida’s grocery store shelves when it runs out. Eggs are more and more expensive in FL, so is meat and milk under “awesome savior” RD.
Unsurprisingly this lowlife satanic false christ RD has been literally vomited, spat, and shat on by his force-feeding victims, and anyone who continues to defend RD, DT, EM, or any other “anti-wokeness hero” is equally as braindead as a demoncrat is. Florida LOVES vaxxines, mental hospitals, children’s mental hospitals, and medically kidnapping children.
These are not illegal aliens, but registered and born US citizens: https://healthimpactnews.com/2018/florida-illegally-separating-children-of-u-s-citizens-from-their-parents-wheres-the-outcry/
Interestingly, the “wokeness/woke culture” doesn’t include the anti-Christian 4Kids or the anti-Christian/pro-atheist Power Rangers dubs of Super Sentai Series.
“Like Musk, DeSantis has consistently spoken out against the “woke agenda.” In his victory speech this month, he said, “We fight the woke in the legislature. We fight the woke in the schools. We fight the woke in the corporations. We will never, ever surrender to the woke mob. Florida is where woke goes to die. I have only begun to fight.”
Florida: the next Guantanamo Bay in the name of its false yeshua? Patriotisn/nationalism/governor worship are various forms of idolatry and no idolator enters the kingdom of God.
But you are on earth right now. And DeSantis is doing a better job than most. You have to see some good there Anonymous. Not perfect, but it is push-back against the Cabal/Satanists. Nobody is doing anything good according to your barrage of continuous hate! You do sound like a Jehovah Witness. Everything and everyone are bad, and only those who call God Jehovah, will be spared when God comes to Earth and kills everyone else. There is nothing wrong with supporting those trying to do right. It’s also OK to celebrate someone’s birthday.
What continues to amaze me is the Truth our Govt. hides from us! Plenty of pure fresh water below the surface and more than we could ever use…known as “Deep Water” aquifer at 4,000’-5,000’ (we drill for Oil much deeper every day)…visit: StoptheCrime.net…search “Deep Water”…TPTB seem to want to kill us all…Oh yeah. The WEF/NWO has stated that is the plan! Let you elected Officials know…PLENTY OF WATER! Blessings.
And it sickens me that FL – the state where NASA, Disney, and a global fact checking organization is located – is suddenly the “champion” of freedom and will “magically save America”.
NASA is the biggest fibbing “science” organization around, making people believe our planet’s a spinning ball orbiting some oversized sun, and keeps launching very expensive, noisy rockets in attempt to pierce the solid firmament – to reach some star.
https://odysee.com/@stpierrs:f/NASA-Artemis-Moon-Mission-Exposed:2
https://odysee.com/@truthte11er2.0:d/NASA-Fakery:e
https://odysee.com/@stpierrs:f/9convert.com—Flat-Earth–Secret-Expeditions–Banned-BBC-Documentary-Part-1_360p:0
https://odysee.com/@stpierrs:f/6umK28B4bj89:7
We have noticed for the last couple of years, in the Black Hills area, that birds have really dropped in numbers. And insects for the last 5+ years are way down. I don’t have to clean them off the windshield anymore. 1 or 2 but it is never covered. Bug zapper pretty quiet. With all the changes worldwide, I guess this is another aspect of it.