The Last Peach
Population Growth, Sprawl Threaten California’s Crops. For some, Labor Day marks summer’s end. For others, summer is over, symbolically at least, when... Read More
Visa Overstay + Anchor Baby Citizenship = More Unsustainable Population Growth
The huge 36 percent H-2A visa increase during the first three months of 2017 from the same period in 2016 has short-... Read More
Two Watermelon Stories: Panicked Pre-Harvest; Jubilant Post-Harvest
Here’s a good one for the “crops are rotting in the field” file. A favorite reporter theme that dates back at least... Read More
California Senators Feinstein and Harris Propose Ag Amnesty
California Senators Dianne Feinstein and Kamala Harris, along with Vermont’s Patrick Leahy, Colorado’s Michael Bennet and Hawaii’s Mazie Hirono, recently introduced the... Read More
Ag Pleads with Trump for More Cheap Labor, Claims the President Recognizes ‘the System is Broken’
Just as it does every spring, the agriculture industry descended on Washington, D.C. with its annual lament: We need more cheap labor!... Read More
Dust in the Wind: Audacious ‘Desert Wheat’ Scheme Wilts in Sands of Saudi Arabia
With depletion of fossil aquifer used for irrigation, cultivating wheat in Saudi Arabia’s desert proves just another pipe dream. Flush with hundreds... Read More
A 20-Year Personal Perspective on Immigration in California
My first involvement in the illegal and legal immigration battle began in 1993 when I served as Chairman of the Santa Barbara... Read More
AB 20 Could Give Legal Status to More Than 500,000 Alien Farmworkers
Californians who may think that the state’s immigration crisis is as bad as it can get should hold on to their hats.... Read More
Groundwater Pumping Increasing Seismic Activity
Is the combined weight of 38 million Californians actually deforming the Earth’s crust and increasing the number of earthquakes as well as... Read More
Food Grows Where Water Flows
The Huffington Post helpfully informs us that “if you like to eat, you should really be worried about California’s drought.” Even those... Read More