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You can basically grow all year there. Land is cheap and you have the Colorado river. And it is close enough to Mexico that you can get cheap farm labor.
by sjg007 8y ago
You can basically grow all year there. Land is cheap and you have the Colorado river. And it is close enough to Mexico that you can get cheap farm labor.
- nixpulvis 8y agoYou might be assuming water rights are easy to get.
- sjg007 8y agoRead up on the history of the west.. it's all about water rights. Yuma exists and that's where they grow lettuce. I don't understand what you mean by water rights being easy to get? These farmers, in some cases, have (state) constitutional rights to water.
- nixpulvis 8y agohttps://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_rights_process.html https://www.waterboards.ca.gov/waterrights/board_info/water_... I think reading this gives a pretty good picture of the situation from a bureaucratic point of view.
- sjg007 8y agoYuma is in Arizona dude. The specifics of water rights between States was codified by Congress. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colorado_River_Compact