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Old 03-13-2016, 01:50 PM
 
Location: Somewhere flat in Mississippi
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What crops are in decline in California due to drought, suburbanization, or the ability to grow crops cheaper elsewhere?
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Old 03-13-2016, 02:10 PM
 
Location: Carpinteria
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Why don't you just google it for facts?
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...+do+to+drought
I guess you want opinions?

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Old 03-13-2016, 02:22 PM
 
Location: So California
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Not much. California is and will remain the leading ag state in the nation, and its not close. The good thing about the continued use of water is it SHOULD force the state to develop more water recources, storage and even desalinisation.



California’s agriculture sector has exceeded expectations during the most severe drought in recorded history at the cost of massive but unsustainable groundwater pumping. Continued groundwater overdraft, while reducing the economic impacts of the drought for the agricultural sector now, has shifted the burden to others, including current and future generations forced to dig deeper wells, find alternative drinking water sources, and repair infrastructure damaged by subsidence. That is the conclusion of the new study, Impacts of California’s Ongoing Drought: Agriculture, released today by the Pacific Institute, an independent global water think tank.

Impacts of California
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Old 03-13-2016, 03:59 PM
 
Location: Santa Cruz, CA
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Why don't you just google it for facts?
https://www.google.com/?gws_rd=ssl#q...+do+to+drought
I guess you want opinions?
City data forum is more fun than google.
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Old 03-15-2016, 10:37 AM
 
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One that seems to increase without end is wine grapes.
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Old 03-15-2016, 06:11 PM
 
Location: Pahrump, NV
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also never ending? almond trees
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Old 03-15-2016, 06:28 PM
 
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One that seems to increase without end is wine grapes.
And rice, though I like Wine and Almonds better.
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Old 03-16-2016, 09:18 AM
 
Location: Turlock, CA
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also never ending? almond trees
Yep. A lot of diversity is going out the window here too though; almonds are valuable, so people are tearing out peaches, apricots, etc. to put in almonds.
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Old 03-16-2016, 04:30 PM
 
Location: State of Transition
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Yep. A lot of diversity is going out the window here too though; almonds are valuable, so people are tearing out peaches, apricots, etc. to put in almonds.
Lettuce and veggie crops are going over to almonds in some areas, too. But what's going to put the biggest damper on ag diversity (or ag in gen'l) in CA is the increasing SW drought over the coming years.
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Old 03-17-2016, 10:44 PM
 
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In some places like San Diego County, water has become so expensive that people are abandoning their avacado groves- Valley Center area is the worst and it used to be a prime avocado farming.

California is lucky that some of its products can't be grown in other US places.
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