The midwest can easily supply america with just about all the produce it needs (except maybe pineapples and mangos). I have often heard Californians sneer at the thought of buying produce from the midwest. That is actually farmers exploiting racial/cultural fears to pad their own pockets, and ignorant Californians falling for this farmer’s trick.
Farming in California a DOOMED pursuit, the land will last for at most 200-300 years, before the salts from irrigation ruin all the land in California. We might as well give up on farming in the central valley because it’s a doomed industry to begin with. Watch any PBS show on irrigation to learn why. The Central Valley is on-track to look like Egypt in a few thousand years …
