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> By contrast, just California alone produced 173500 metric tonnes of just bell peppers. California alone produced almost 1000000 metric tonnes of sugarbeets.
by throw0101a 5y ago
> By contrast, just California alone produced 173500 metric tonnes of just bell peppers. California alone produced almost 1000000 metric tonnes of sugarbeets.
California exports a lot of stuff. Canada may simply be trying to feed itself, so the 'extra' volume may not be considered a major consideration.
> […] the scale doesn't really come close to what is happening in the US southwest.
How useful is scale if it can't be sustained?
- PaulDavisThe1st 5y agoI did not mean to suggest that the CA/southwest agriculture setup is sustainable (though it might be if it made some notable changes). I just meant that we likely can't replace what is grown there by growing things in more northerly latitudes, even if there is more water there. Maybe we shouldn't replace it, that's certainly up for debate. But we almost certainly cannot do a 1:1 switch, Great Lakes, greenhouses or otherwise.