california drought ?

Yessir...and it's "Hurry up and wait." I don't do much out of Salinas, during the winter time I do a ton of LTL business out of Yuma going to the SF produce markets.

 

You're not dealing with Access Organics by chance, are you?

 

San Louis is filled from the aqueduct not rain water (yes they pump it up there from the valley in the winter months).

That is water that was sold to central valley farmers by the state for irrigation purposes.

Oddly enough the Empirial valley got plenty of rain this winter. Remember Phoenix was flooded a couple of times.

Yep home base is Salinas.

 

The winters have been light n snow.. Means less water in reservoir's

I've been seeing drought signs here and there in the state..

I'm not hauling produce as y'all are tho..

 

Imperial valley didn't get much rain at all. We were rained out only a handful of times this winter.

I thought the water situation in the desert had more to do with the Colorado River though. ...or maybe that's just yuma?

 

I believe on internet it was reported that there were approx 545,000 acres of farmland that is laying fallow due to the drought and more predicted in the future. Farmers have had their water rationed 10% below what they used previously and this started maybe a couple of years ago. Farms are supposed to be using a slow drip system for watering, not sure if this mandate is across the board yet or not. Not sure, but I thought water was supposed to be reduced by everyone else in the state by about 25%, hence the complaining about it by regular citizens. Almonds are supposed to be a large user of water, but they also are a gluten free alternate for people who cannot eat flour and gluten products, so perhaps it is a commodity that is needed. Of course a lot of these products grown are shipped out of the states too, but they neglect to mention how many products are shipped in from other countries to offset the water use.