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> Based on USDA data for 2021, only 3.9% of all U.S. hay produced and 6.4% of all alfalfa hay entered the export market. [0] [0] https://hayandforage.com/art

> Based on USDA data for 2021, only 3.9% of all U.S. hay produced and 6.4% of all alfalfa hay entered the export market. [0] [0] https://hayandforage.com/article-3825-year-end-hay-exports-set-new-records.html https://hayandforage.com/article-3825-year-end-hay-exports-s...

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Sakos 4y ago
How much of Californian alfalfa is exported?
- shagie 4y ago
  There's an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-water-drought-scarce-saudi-arabia https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w... > Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands. > Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia. > The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai – one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US. --- An article from UC Davis: https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-files/pdf/shippingwaterputnam.pdf https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-files/pdf/shippingwaterputnam.p... National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140123-colorado-river-water-alfalfa-hay-farming-export-asia https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140123-co... > Glennon crunched some numbers and figured that in 2012, roughly 50 billion gallons of western water—enough to supply the annual household needs of half a million families—were exported to China. Not literally bottled up and shipped, but embedded in alfalfa crops grown with irrigation water. And that's just to China, which still trails Japan and the United Arab Emirates as a top destination for American alfalfa. Chasing the author, that leads us to https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.7/how-we-export-our-water-to-asia https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.7/how-we-export-our-water-to-a... NPR: In Time Of Drought, U.S. West's Alfalfa Exports Are Criticized https://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339753108/in-time-of-drought-arizona-s-alpha-exports-criticized https://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339753108/in-time-of-drought-... And WSJ Parched in the West but Shipping Water to China, Bale by Bale https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444517304577653432417208116 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444517304577653...
asdff 4y ago
In california export figures are different. Among water intensive crops something like 70% of almonds are exported to other countries. Most rice grown is also exported as well. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028452988/climate-change-california-drought-heat-almond-production https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028452988/climate-change-cal... https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-rice-growers-stand-to-prosper-from-11656216.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-rice...
- kolanos 4y ago
  Your claim was: > Some water intensive crops like alfalfa are simply exported to global markets and are not even used for the domestic food supply. This is simply false and unsupported by USDA data.

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Sakos 4y ago

How much of Californian alfalfa is exported?

shagie 4y ago
There's an article about it: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-water-drought-scarce-saudi-arabia https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2019/mar/25/california-w... > Massive industrial storehouses line the southern end of town, packed with thousands upon thousands of stacks of alfalfa bales ready to be fed to dairy cows – but not cows in California’s Central Valley or Montana’s rangelands. > Instead, the alfalfa will be fed to cows in Saudi Arabia. > The storehouses belong to Fondomonte Farms, a subsidiary of the Saudi Arabia-based company Almarai – one of the largest food production companies in the world. The company sells milk, powdered milk and packaged items such as croissants, strudels and cupcakes in supermarkets and corner stores throughout the Middle East and North Africa, and in specialty grocers throughout the US. --- An article from UC Davis: https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-files/pdf/shippingwaterputnam.pdf https://alfalfa.ucdavis.edu/-files/pdf/shippingwaterputnam.p... National Geographic: https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140123-colorado-river-water-alfalfa-hay-farming-export-asia https://www.nationalgeographic.com/science/article/140123-co... > Glennon crunched some numbers and figured that in 2012, roughly 50 billion gallons of western water—enough to supply the annual household needs of half a million families—were exported to China. Not literally bottled up and shipped, but embedded in alfalfa crops grown with irrigation water. And that's just to China, which still trails Japan and the United Arab Emirates as a top destination for American alfalfa. Chasing the author, that leads us to https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.7/how-we-export-our-water-to-asia https://www.hcn.org/issues/46.7/how-we-export-our-water-to-a... NPR: In Time Of Drought, U.S. West's Alfalfa Exports Are Criticized https://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339753108/in-time-of-drought-arizona-s-alpha-exports-criticized https://www.npr.org/2014/08/12/339753108/in-time-of-drought-... And WSJ Parched in the West but Shipping Water to China, Bale by Bale https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444517304577653432417208116 https://www.wsj.com/articles/SB10000872396390444517304577653...

asdff 4y ago

In california export figures are different. Among water intensive crops something like 70% of almonds are exported to other countries. Most rice grown is also exported as well. https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028452988/climate-change-california-drought-heat-almond-production https://www.npr.org/2021/08/17/1028452988/climate-change-cal... https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-rice-growers-stand-to-prosper-from-11656216.php https://www.sfchronicle.com/business/article/California-rice...

kolanos 4y ago
Your claim was: > Some water intensive crops like alfalfa are simply exported to global markets and are not even used for the domestic food supply. This is simply false and unsupported by USDA data.