Water worries in the Golden State.
Submitted by Dick Wanner on Wed, 07/08/2009 - 7:33am.
As if California didn't already have enough problems, drought is costing the state's imploding economy thousands of jobs and millions of dollars in revenue. According to an AP story in USA Today, Fresno County, the country's top agricultural producer, farmers did not plant 262,000 acres this year because of the water shortage. Statewide, as of May, water shortages in the San Joaquin Valley have cost the California economy an estimated 35,000 jobs and $830 million in farm revenue.
At loggerheads over water are farmers, fishermen, environmentalists and ordinary citizens drinking water from the kitchen faucet (although who knows how many Californians actually drink water straight from the tap).
To read the story, click here: http://www.usatoday.com/weather/drought/2009-06-29-california-drought_N.htm
Wool-gathering writ large. Or at least medium sized. When Jennifer Elgrim left the corporate world in 2007, she and her husband, Drew, visited the Maryland Sheep and Wool Festival, and came home with a spinning wheel. Then they bought some used wool processing equipment, and, finally, some sheep. Lancaster Farming correspondent Toni Keller visited the Elgrims in Allentown, N.J., to find out how the Cloudberry Sheep and Wool Mill is doing, which is quite well. The story is in Section B of our current edition.
I want to see her do a bicycle kick.
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