Articles for California Farmers

'We just don’t know yet': Trump-voting farmers 'nervously' await his next move
1 week, 6 days ago

'We just don’t know yet': Trump-voting farmers 'nervously' await his next move

Raw Story  

California farmers who placed their bets on Donald Trump in the 2024 presidential election are now waiting anxiously to see if he is serious about his threat to round up undocumented immigrants after he enters the White House on Jan. 20th. With the president-elect already having chosen immigration hardliner Thomas Homan as his "border czar" who has indicated he will …

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California farmers were big Trump backers. They may be on collision course over immigrant deportation
1 month, 2 weeks ago

California farmers were big Trump backers. They may be on collision course over immigrant deportation

LA Times  

A paradox has settled across California’s velvet green fields and orchards. “Most farmers are realizing that they’re going to need to implement the H-2A program at some level to assure that they have labor,” Scaroni said. “Undocumented people are the ones who are really doing the tough work,” she said, “because we need to make money to feed our children …

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California farmers enjoy pistachio boom, with much of it headed to China
1 month, 4 weeks ago

California farmers enjoy pistachio boom, with much of it headed to China

Associated Press  

LOST HILLS, Calif. — In a sprawling plant in the heart of California’s farmland, millions of shells rush down a metallic chute and onto a conveyor belt where they are inspected, roasted, packaged and shipped off to groceries around the world. “There has been an explosion over the last 10 or 15 years of plantings, and those trees are coming …

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California pig welfare rule delays frustrate small farmers
2 years, 4 months ago

California pig welfare rule delays frustrate small farmers

Associated Press  

DES MOINES, Iowa — Ohio hog farmer Joe Brandt changed his operation a few years ago to give his pigs more room and keep pregnant sows out of the narrow crates used by most farms. If you see something and you’re progressive and you work toward it and you believe in it, I think if a measure like this does …

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Crisis looms without big cuts to over-tapped Colorado River
2 years, 4 months ago

Crisis looms without big cuts to over-tapped Colorado River

Associated Press  

SALT LAKE CITY — Hydroelectric turbines may stop turning. People have “been hoping to stave off this day,” said Felicia Marcus, a former top water official in California, which holds the largest right to the river’s water. Entsminger and his counterparts in Arizona, Utah and California, as well as local officials in and around Phoenix, also repeated what has become …

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A long-simmering water battle comes to a boil in Southern California
4 years, 6 months ago

A long-simmering water battle comes to a boil in Southern California

LA Times  

The All-American Canal winds through the Algodones Dunes in Imperial County, bringing water from the Colorado River to Imperial Valley farms and cities. Nowhere is that more true than the Imperial Valley, a sun-baked desert in California’s southeastern corner where around 500 landowning families use Colorado River water to grow much of the country’s winter vegetables. In terms of water, …

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