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It would take many years for production to meaningfully ramp up, but there absolutely is a lot of land in California that could be used to grow avocados if it m

It would take many years for production to meaningfully ramp up, but there absolutely is a lot of land in California that could be used to grow avocados if it made economic sense.

SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
So, on to the next example: Brazilian coffee.
- xnx 1y ago
  Some enterprising company needs to brand yaupon for the maga crowd.
  - SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
    It needs a name change. Much like "Chinese gooseberry" was rebranded as "Kiwi fruit". Maybe "Ilex vomitoria" -> "Patriot puke". "Spew American!".
- dragontamer 1y ago
  Technically Hawaii and maybe Puerto Rico. But those areas don't have anywhere close to the land of Brazil, Columbia or Vietnam. -------- Another example: bauxite ore (Australia is our chief partner in that IIRC). USA somehow is missing the raw ore for Aluminum despite nearly everyone else in the world having it. There's lots of things we can't make
  - SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
    Correct, I know that coffee is grown on Hawaii, but it simply doesn't have the land area at the right altitude necessary to do so at the required scale. Something not quite the same, but parallel is happening with Florida oranges: > Only 12m boxes of oranges will have been produced in Florida by the end of this year (2024), ... The figure is 33% lower than a year ago, and less than 5% of the 2004 harvest of 242m boxes. > It is also dwarfed by the 378m boxes expected to be produced this year in Brazil https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/florida-orange-industry https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/florida-oran...
    - xnx 1y ago
      Greening disease is the primary cause of decreased citrus production in the US https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/ https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-product...
      - SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
        That's what the linked article says, yes. And tariffs won't change that.

It would take many years for production to meaningfully ramp up, but there absolutely is a lot of land in California that could be used to grow avocados if it made economic sense.

SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago

So, on to the next example: Brazilian coffee.

xnx 1y ago
Some enterprising company needs to brand yaupon for the maga crowd.
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
  It needs a name change. Much like "Chinese gooseberry" was rebranded as "Kiwi fruit". Maybe "Ilex vomitoria" -> "Patriot puke". "Spew American!".
dragontamer 1y ago
Technically Hawaii and maybe Puerto Rico. But those areas don't have anywhere close to the land of Brazil, Columbia or Vietnam. -------- Another example: bauxite ore (Australia is our chief partner in that IIRC). USA somehow is missing the raw ore for Aluminum despite nearly everyone else in the world having it. There's lots of things we can't make
- SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
  Correct, I know that coffee is grown on Hawaii, but it simply doesn't have the land area at the right altitude necessary to do so at the required scale. Something not quite the same, but parallel is happening with Florida oranges: > Only 12m boxes of oranges will have been produced in Florida by the end of this year (2024), ... The figure is 33% lower than a year ago, and less than 5% of the 2004 harvest of 242m boxes. > It is also dwarfed by the 378m boxes expected to be produced this year in Brazil https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/florida-orange-industry https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2024/dec/22/florida-oran...
  - xnx 1y ago
    Greening disease is the primary cause of decreased citrus production in the US https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-production-plummeted-years/ https://citrusindustry.net/2024/05/07/florida-orange-product...
    - SideburnsOfDoom 1y ago
      That's what the linked article says, yes. And tariffs won't change that.