California farmers ban together to fight
nut rustlers
yeah.
This harvest season in the Central Valley, thieves cut through a fence and hauled off $400,000 in walnuts. Another $100,000 in almonds was stolen by a driver with a fake license. And $100,000 in pistachios was taken by a big rig driver who left a farm without filling out any paperwork.
nut rustlers.
“The Wild West is alive and well in certain aspects,” said Danielle Oliver of the California Farm Bureau….
The Farm Bureau: an NGO.
Domestic demand for specialty foods and an expanding Asian market for them have prompted a nut orchard boom in the state’s agricultural heartland.
an expanding Asian market aaaaaand there ya have it.
As the nation’s top nut producer, the state grows more almonds and pistachios than any other country. Only China produces more walnuts, which have nearly tripled in price in the last five years to about $2 a pound, according to the California Walnut Board.
When business is in a regulatory choke hold, people make …other arrangements. As goes CA so goes the Nation.
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I don’t think anyone will disagree with the statement that California is the nation’s top producer of nuts.
Hey, nut rustlers ain’t doin’ nuthin’ the state gov’t ain’t'a doin’.
Reckon the answer’s the same … string ‘em up, Sheriff.
California—Land of fruit pot and nuts.
What has America come to? We can’t even keep up with our nuts now.
Don’t mess with farmers.
Don’t they know to cover their nuts?
What’s next … fruits?
This is similar to copper and other valuable metals being stripped from construction sites and expensive plants being stolen from new subdivisions in the middle of the night. This happens in SoCal.
Fe Fi Fo Fum — I smell the blood of an spammer dork.
Asians? …as in the people who crashed hijacked planes into the WTC and Pentagon, blew up trains in Madrid, blew up nightclubs in Bali, blew up the entrance to the Jakarta Marriott, blew up subways in London, blew up an SUV in front of the Glasgow airport, and hundreds of other maiming and killing incidents? Good thing they can get themselves others’ pistachios and almonds.
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Interesting note on central valley nuts: CA environmental regulations have made the small dairy farmers close shop. Lots of family dairies being converted to nut orchards.
Same on the farms, Abernathy Cranston III @9. Pumps disappearing overnight, wire, all sorts of metal equipment…
Also, logdogsmith @12, it is not sure the CA cattle industry will survive the drought — much less Brown’s Canals…
Apparently, the Powahs That Be believe people can eat Gloogle’s output.
The Central Valley, America`s Garden, is populated with a zillion illegal aliens. No wonder the theft of everything is going straight up the chart!!!!!!
hoo the hell needs a drivers license in cali-xico??
30-35 million illegal alien invaders cant be wrong
^Claire (13) eat Gloogle’s output
That sounds like the new soylent green. Just add nuts.
So are they going to have to microstamp nuts now?
Will it be a microbrand on each nut to confound nut rustlers?
Vigilante Mr. Peanut has crosshair on his monocle.
This too shall pass as soon as yet another “endangered” species is discovered and more water is removed from agricultural use.
It’s drivin’ me nuts.