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Who has the better dirt ?

Who has the better dirt?

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Right, and California soil, for some reason, has been untouched by all those pesticides.
It has, we ask the bugs to leave and provide basic nutritional support and they agree to not eat our crops. It's all part of the growing collective.
 
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Who's holding the water hostage?
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It has, we ask the bugs to leave and provide basic nutritional support and they agree to not eat our crops. It's all part of the growing collective.
I just took a new role at work where I now have CA as part of my territory. I know very little about CA agriculture, and my company doesn’t have much of a presence there, but I’m trying to learn as much as I can. Been interesting so far.
 
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Right, and California soil, for some reason, has been untouched by all those pesticides.
I’d wager a fair amount that the average acre used for fruit/vegetable/nut production in Cali is getting a hell of a lot more pesticide than an acre of corn or soybeans in Iowa.

That isn’t to say that Iowa’s doing great. But I don’t think it’s because of pesticide misuse. It’s from not doing enough to protect waterways and eliminate runoff.
 
I’d wager a fair amount that the average acre used for fruit/vegetable/nut production in Cali is getting a hell of a lot more pesticide than an acre of corn or soybeans in Iowa.

That isn’t to say that Iowa’s doing great. But I don’t think it’s because of pesticide misuse. It’s from not doing enough to protect waterways and eliminate runoff.
Yeah, I would guess on a per acre basis, CA sees way more pesticide use because of their high value crops and climate. Honestly, Iowa could solve many of their problems with better management practices around synthetic N fertilizers and a little smarter use of atrazine.
The EPA is introducing mitigation practices pertaining to off-target drift and runoff of pesticides. I would guess mitigation involving potential leaching of certain pesticides is around the corner.
 
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Yeah, I would guess on a per acre basis, CA sees way more pesticide use because of their high value crops and climate. Honestly, Iowa could solve many of their problems with better management practices around synthetic N fertilizers and a little smarter use of atrazine.
The EPA is introducing mitigation practices pertaining to off-target drift and runoff of pesticides. I would guess mitigation involving potential leaching of certain pesticides is around the corner.
I grew up in Clayton County, and there is some land in that corner of the state, all along the river really, that has such extreme terrain that I just don’t know how corn is farmed on it.
 
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I just took a new role at work where I now have CA as part of my territory. I know very little about CA agriculture, and my company doesn’t have much of a presence there, but I’m trying to learn as much as I can. Been interesting so far.
All you need to know is that nearly all of it is run by a few billionaire family/companies that spend an insane amount of money putting up signs all along the valley about water laws hurting family farms. Oh, and that our water laws needed to be changed about 100 years ago.
 
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I know we made money for every pond we built on farm. Selling the dirt netted a 6k profit over excavation costs.
 
I’d wager a fair amount that the average acre used for fruit/vegetable/nut production in Cali is getting a hell of a lot more pesticide than an acre of corn or soybeans in Iowa.

That isn’t to say that Iowa’s doing great. But I don’t think it’s because of pesticide misuse. It’s from not doing enough to protect waterways and eliminate runoff.
California soil is pure
 
Honestly, it depends on what you want to grow.

Big Island, Hawaii is mostly just lava rock. Not really anything you'd call "soil"... but coffee grows really well there.
 
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