I've worked in agtech for the last 20 years supplying CA with various equipment and there's a vast amount of food industry there. So, the unfortunate thing is, kind of need to let capitalism do its job here. Ultimately, there is a lot of opportunity and infrastructure for all kinds of crops. Either people adapt or someone will buy them out. The only time you should really worry is if anyone trys to rezone agricultural land for other purposes.

Serious question

Were these trees ever profitable? If the true cost of water resources were added?

If the true cost of picking them with US workers were paid?

Any other subsidy?

In my country there is a farm lobby too, but they rather look after the massive agribusiness at the expense of small farms. Is that the case in the US?

I have never seen a californian peach orchard (I have read Grapes of Wrath, if that counts!), are they a similar environmental disaster to the almond monoculture?

I know this is naive but I wonder why the CCPA, together with the Department of Agriculture, chose not to purchase the peach canning facilities that Del Monte Foods was running. I suppose that it's more risk for the farmers in a world where canned peach sales are declining. I can't imagine it's easy to just clear cut a ton of trees though. 9 million sounds like nothing when it will take years for whatever new crop they plant to fruit.

glad we piped all of that water off the Colorado river to them

This is all because :peach: now only means "buttocks" or "impeachment" isn't it? Who'd want to eat those anymore!

https://emojipedia.org/peach

It’s all about maximizing value for creditors.

Similar with the Spirit bankruptcy, nobody wanted to save the company... they wanted to sell the assets to reduce losses.

What do they do with the wood from the trees. I have an offset smoker and fruit woods are excellent fuel.

Farmer here. We would not need these interventions if we simply had high tariffs on food. Farmers produce a commodity product that has to compete on price with food grown in countries with zero labor protections (Mexico cowboys earn $17 per day on average vs WA state cows boys who make $17 minimum per hour) and zero environmental protections (many chemicals are banned from use here and engines need very expensive pollution mitigation devices).

Everybody gangsta about not needing government handouts until it's their own livelihood at stake.