Im all for bringing awareness to causes (and you cant argue with how much attention this has received), but every time I see a bucket of water being dumped, it hurts to think how many living things could have used that water. e.g. California has been the number one food and agricultural producer in the United States for more than 50 consecutive years. More than half the nations fruit, nuts, and vegetables come from here. California is the nations number one dairy state. Californias leading commodity is milk and cream. Grapes are second. Californias leading export crop is almonds. Nationally, products exclusively grown (99% or more) in California include almonds, artichokes, dates, figs, kiwifruit, olives, persimmons, pistachios, prunes, raisins, clovers, and walnuts. From 70 to 80% of all ripe olives are grown in California. California is the nations leading producer of strawberries, averaging 1.4 billion pounds of strawberries or 83% of the countrys total fresh and frozen strawberry production. Approximately 12% of the crop is exported to Canada, Mexico, United Kingdom, Hong Kong and Japan primarily. The value of the California strawberry crop is approximately $700 million with related employment of more than 48,000 people. California produces 25% of the nations onions and 43% of the nations green onions.
Posted on: Mon, 18 Aug 2014 22:32:01 +0000