We have had reports of farms shutting down across America due to a lot of factors. This video deep dives California and the shutdown of farms that grow water intensive crops during a drought!
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California’s farms face a number of challenges related to water shortages, including:
Increased water demand
Crops in California’s farm belt are demanding more water each year, with a yearly increase of nearly twice the capacity of Hetch Hetchy Reservoir in Yosemite National Park.
Drought
Droughts have caused water shortages for agriculture, especially in the Central Valley. In 2021, surface water deliveries to farms in the Central Valley and North Coast dropped by 5.5 million acre-feet, which was 41% below the average from 2002-2016. (
Water rights curtailments
Water right curtailments have reduced local deliveries to protect other users and the environment.
Water allocation
While 75% of California’s water falls in the north, 80% of the state’s water needs come from the south, including the Central Valley.
Water-intensive crops
Some of California’s most water-intensive crops include almonds, alfalfa, dates, kiwis, cotton, pistachios, walnuts, strawberries, stone fruits, wine and table grapes, wheat, and sunflowers!
The U.S. Food and Drug Administration, which is responsible for checking most imported foods, samples less than 1 percent of all regulated products. It regularly refuses shipments of purportedly organic foods because of pesticide residues or unsafe food additives – not because the food does not meet organic standards, but because they do not meet standards for any food. For example, organic soybean meal coming through the Port of Seattle in 2007 appeared to contain “a poisonous or deleterious substance which may render it injurious to health,” according to an FDA report.
The USDA’s organic program, which ensures that food carrying the organic label is indeed organic, does not examine food as it comes into the country, and it only sporadically tests products that are labeled organic from the uS and elsewhere.
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37 Comments
May was awesome for the garden. June and July's rain destroyed it. Too much water and it burned the plants.
I forgot I'm from Lakeland, Fl
I live in northern Wisconsin so we're winding up our gardening for the year. But I Love Any gardening tips. ❤
Calif has water wells not in primary source. Are we called the h2o planet?
California bad things happening to our plants. Slow growth, less setting blossoms, brown foilage.
Good show. Whats in our thoughts, your mouth says well.
Thank you and God bless you and your family.
my garden did not grow. my beets only have tops but not below the ground. Watermelons has greens but no melons. even the potatoes grew green but no potatoes.
I am in the California high desert. My growing area is 10 feet by 40 feet.
I don't know what to grow. I don't have a green thumb, at all.
San Diego, CA
Glad hammer is doing better yall have been in our prayers ☺️
My tomatoes aren't doing well after it rained here in Southern Oregon
hi Samantha. I live in Northern California. Ive had a beautiful garden for the past fifteen years. this year, my garden is almost twice as big, and the yield has been half as much. the clouds and the rains this summer have been so strange. Thank You for researching and educating us.. Once again, Youve blown my mind, and opened my eyes.
Fantastic video and thank you ❤️🙏⭐✌️
Everything in my garden mysteriously over night was covered with white poop and died within the next 24 hours
Happened here – even my sunflowers died off too early – grew tall and huge and flowered but the flowers didn’t get huge like normal. They are about 10fr tall and just about dead. The sunflowers also all faced different directions from the sun – never saw that before
It’s not been the best grow year here in Oregon, some had great success and others didn’t do so great. In my quest I’ve asked did y’all use like miracle grow or some other assistance? They all said yes. I asked my good old fashioned gardeners like me they all had a rough season. Example I planted 38 bush bean plants only 4 plants grew. I got a mess of beans in total nothing that I would put up for winter but what we would just eat right away. I planted tons of stuff I just got 5 little green tomatoes that have just started to grow. They are large tomatoes 🍅 but look like cherry tomatoes. 4 acorn squash plants I’ve got 4 acorn squash. Believe me they are chem trailing like the dickens out here. I do not top water. Yet when it rains I get white blotches like hard water on the foliage. Great video once again. Love it. I’m so happy to see the blessings on your face Samantha Glory be. Brooks, Oregon. ♥️🙏👍🤨🇺🇸🇮🇱
The fruit trees in my yard do not produce every year any more. I am lucky if they do it every other year. The weather is so erratic and a quick freeze out of the blue will kill young trees. The reason you don't need water in the summer is because you live in the south where it rains a lot in the summer. California is mainly a desert and can need water even in the winter, if there are drought conditions. There is no lack of water because most of the water is formed underground, not from it raining. The problem in California and several other places is that they are doing injection wells and contaminating the ground water.
Maui kula
Citrus trees dying from being covered in lichens and rust..worst year ever 🤠
We have a lot of tomatoes but they aren't ripening very fast. We are in zone 4 .
My father in law was a dairy farmer/rancher. He never accepted the government handouts and he never went under.
That video with RFK jr is STELLAR!
Mid Gulf coast Florida, I've noticed a big difference in my plants after it rains. Not a good difference either. Very sad.
We noticed a soapy foam along the roadside and puddles in parking lots during our last rain. ??? 😢
Eyes constantly burning and watering….fatigue ..crops odd. We can tell when they are spraying just based on our physical symptoms kicking up. Rain used to feel cleansing.. not anymore. Clouds don't look normal…sky has weird silver haze look after all the # trails spread out. Indiana here. Thank you for all the amazing content Samantha. God bless you and help us all
Our garden this was dismissal this year. I am no green thumb but my garden did fairly good every year. This year there were really sick looking with very little yield. I live in Ohio God bless you Hammer looks great so happy for you!
Central Arkansas. Weird clouds that my 10 year old granddaughter even noticed. Worst garden I’ve ever seen here, and I was born on this 25 acres.
Richmond Va plants didn’t do as well as last year 🧐
Love okra
Hammer is looking so good!
My jubilee corn only got 4 ft tall and did not produce normal size ears.😢
The state of Oregon is closing up small farms. I always grow a garden. This year with the rain and heat it was a very odd season here. My bluberries did well. My heritage red raspberries, golden raspberries, tayberries and Columbia hybrid blackberries did not produce but a handful. My herbs struggled loveage, oregano, thyme, parsley, sage, rosemary and cilantro.
What I grew in the greenhouse flourished. Potato's did okay. Lettuce onions garlic broccoli and beets so so. Tomatoes are doing well, publano peppers not so much.
😢 We are thinking about building another greenhouse. I will not buy produce from the supermarkets.
Heck No 😞. I must have had every aphid in my yard 🤦🏼♀️ They were horrific.
My tomatoes that I bought in the spring grew about 20 inches and stopped. They throw a little flowers and then drop them. This is the second year. I haven’t been able to have tomatoes. The summer was brutal here in Oklahoma. I watered them daily. I can’t get any tomatoes, The leaves curl in like a person closing their hand. It’s very weird and sometimes they look like they have a silvery dusty shine on them like some kind of dust, but it doesn’t come off on my hand or anything. Just a weird color for tomatoes. I’m really concerned the flowers that I planted didn’t make it either and I have a green thumb, I planted a few in pots and flowered for a while and then suddenly just started dying too. I think it’s the planes that passed by all that mercury or whatever coming out of them all the time here I live on a mountain surrounded three ways by lake so there you go.
Our garden in CO didn’t do very well this year
Chemtrails: barium, strontium, aluminum on your crops = subpar crop. weather is controlled.
Hi Sam. Hmmmm… FYI, as soon as your clips begin, the sound goes off and comes back right before RFK and Trump shakes hands. I've already tried it several times and it does the same. Is it Youtube trying to censor? Would not be surprised.
Illinois; I have a small garden, plant a few veggies, tomatoes, cucumbers, squash, pumpkin, peppers & annual flowers. A good portion of the annuals & veggies I planted went brown, but not like rust disease or lack of watering or over watering. The entire plant dry and brown. I'm glad you mentioned this Sam. I thought I'd bought a bunch of diseased plants. Wasn't Miracle Grow potting soil infected with something weird a few years back during Covid?