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RockRaven

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2. Presumably they retain the water rights and will use them equally ill...

Reply to ZonkerHarris (Reply #1)

Tue May 14, 2024, 12:05 AM

May 2024

by selling/leasing them to the highest payer, which may mean something even more noxious -- desert golf courses, low density suburbs on the edge of nowhere, casino resorts -- or maybe the warehouses/transportation will use it all anyway.

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California's wealthiest farm family plans mega-warehouse complex that would reshape Kern economy [View all] usonian May 2024 OP

getting rid of 1800 acres of almond groves would be good at least ZonkerHarris May 2024 #1

Presumably they retain the water rights and will use them equally ill... RockRaven May 2024 #2

ugh ZonkerHarris May 2024 #4

Not mentioned in the article: the impact on family farms Auggie May 2024 #3

Too me the term "farm family" is very misleading FHRRK May 2024 #5