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Your math is right, but conclusion is wrong - wholesale almonds go for $1 - $1.5 per pound, and farmer gets a fraction of that. Yourl are talking about the pri
by ClumsyPilot 4y ago
Your math is right, but conclusion is wrong - wholesale almonds go for $1 - $1.5 per pound, and farmer gets a fraction of that.
Yourl are talking about the privlce going up 10x.
Even if its 10%, you are more than doubling the price at farm gate.
- SR2Z 4y agoThe price seems to be somewhere between $2.5 to $3/lb now: https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/united-states-of-america/almonds/ https://www.selinawamucii.com/insights/prices/united-states-... In any case, doubling the price of almonds is exactly the kind of change I'd expect to see if water was charged fairly. It's one of the worst offenders - if farmers have built their business models around free water during a historic set of droughts, their business models are fundamentally unsustainable and it's the government's duty to fix the pricing sooner rather than later.