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Related: About this forumArizona farmers forced to adapt as main water source dries up - PBS NewsHour
Yuma County, Arizona, is known as the "Winter Salad Bowl Capital." From lettuce to cilantro to broccoli, the region produces almost all the leafy green vegetables consumed in the U.S. during winter months. Farmers there rely on the nearby Colorado River and as the West contends with drought and a changing climate, they've had to adapt. Stephanie Sy reports. - Aired on 12/16/2024.
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Arizona farmers forced to adapt as main water source dries up - PBS NewsHour (Original Post)
Rhiannon12866
Dec 17
OP
Good point and you're right - lettuce will become a precious and rare commodity
Rhiannon12866
Dec 17
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StarryNite
(10,907 posts)1. And what happens when most of the workers are deported?
The orange POS is going to make sure things go from bad to worse on every level.
Rhiannon12866
(224,278 posts)2. Good point and you're right - lettuce will become a precious and rare commodity
rpannier
(24,597 posts)3. Self-inflicted wounds
Yuma is very Republikkan
not fooled
(6,114 posts)4. I just got out of there
earlier this year...a dingy, drab, miserable fourth-rate armpit of a town.
One significant aspect missing from this story is that the winter vegetable season has been moved forward ABOUT A MONTH because of persistent warm weather now. Nevertheless, I don't think I met a single person there who believed in man-made climate change. Bunch of LDS, other religious wackos, dyed-in-the-wool pukes, and vacuous ignoramuses. What a place.
Old Crank
(4,878 posts)5. Growing in a desert
From an over taxed water system.
What could go wrong?
Oh! Drought.....
Trump needs to round up the people and CEOs of the farms hiring undocumented workers first.