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by kolanos 4y ago
> 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-s...
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Alfalfa is one of the most water efficient and nutritionally rich crops there is. It is also one of the most drought resistant crops. It is hearty and reliable, unlike corn which is far more wasteful when it comes to water. > Deep-Rooted
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For perspective, France is slightly smaller than two Colorados.
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> In 2016, 87.3 percent of food and beverage purchases by U.S. consumers, including both grocery store and eating out purchases, were from domestic production. The remaining 12.7 percent were reimported food and beverages such as produce
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Where are you and these other commenters getting this falsehood that a significant portion of alfalfa is exported? Is it one of those articles about that Saudi owned land exporting their alfalfa? > Based on USDA data for 2021, only 3.9%
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I quoted you for posterity.
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> Solely relying on these statewide volumes is controversial because they don't consider the fact that most of the volume of water used for environmental purposes includes flows down Wild and Scenic Rivers in the North Coast where t
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I was addressing your belittling of California's food production and its importance. > No, we will not starve to death if California stops growing almonds and pistachios. California is effectively the sole source of: almonds, olives
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We don't need to rely on hunches. > In an average year, about 39% of California's water consumption, or 34.1 million acre-feet (42.1 km3), is used for agricultural purposes. Of that total, 11%, or 8.9 million acre-feet (11.0 km
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> California produces over 13% of the nation's agricultural production value. California's top 20 crop and livestock commodities account for more than $25 billion in value. [0] How do you plan to replace the $25 billion a year
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Farmers have been curtailed to zero. [0] Now what ? [0]: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2022/feb/23/rain-califor...
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Who is sacrificing exactly? > The federal government said Wednesday that it won’t deliver water to farmers in California’s agricultural belt, which produces roughly a quarter of the nation’s food, due to the extreme water shortages that
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> we know the cause is agriculture and blaming grass lawns and car washing can easily be disproven Agriculture is where your food comes from. Unless you're eating your lawn? 40% of the water going to food production is precisely wh
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This might just be me, but I prioritize agriculture over swimming pools. It's strange that it is agriculture to blame when LA doesn't source its own water and instead diverts water from the central valleys away from agriculture. A
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> Climatologist Bill Patzert estimates that more than 80% of the region's rainfall ends up diverted from urban areas in Southern California into the Pacific . “All those trillions of gallons of rain, which sound so sweet, really en
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It seems to me that a false negative is worse than a false positive if the goal is to hire talent. Have never understood the mentality that it is better to mistakenly turn away a high skill individual than to mistakenly hire a low skill one
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This is totally off topic, but I am glad to see this here. Nest.js seems really powerful on the surface, when you start reading their docs [0] everything makes sense at first. But the deeper you go, the more it sets in that the complexity i
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Libel is a civil matter. The government can't charge you with libel.
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Abortion isn't covered in the U.S. Constitution, aside from perhaps a right to life? Are you referring to Roe v. Wade? If so, that's a court decision.
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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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Alfalfa is one of the most water efficient and nutritionally rich crops there is. It is also one of the most drought resistant crops. It is hearty and reliable, unlike corn which is far more wasteful when it comes to water. > Deep-Rooted
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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/article-3825-year-end-hay-exports-s...
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California produces 13% of the U.S.'s agriculture and produces 99% of the following: almonds, olives, peaches, artichokes, dates, pomegranates, raisins, sweet rice, pistachios, plums and walnuts. [0] Only reason the figure is 2% is bec
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Both are pretty disastrous accessibility-wise.
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Which country do you live in where morality is so homogenized?
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To start Florida has a corporate income tax (~5.5%) and a sales tax (~6%), neither of which Disney has to pay in their autonomous zone. They only have to pay property tax. They also don't have to adhere to any developmental regulations
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I can't help but see the irony that DeSantis is being described as an autocrat for trying to break up what is effectively a autonomous state that Walt Disney created to bypass most laws and oversight. > Walt Disney knew that his pla
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Is there a way to invite other users to a developer account? Or is it single user?
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As someone who knows what goes into something like this, this is truly impressive work. Congrats on the launch.
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Quake supported cameras, as you put it. People made movies in the Quake engine with literal camera shaped models floating around. Also, Quake levels could be huge, much larger than Mario 64. Take a look at Ziggurat Vertigo [0][1], for examp

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