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Pistachios and Almonds use 4x less acreage than Alfalfa, hay, clover, etc. These feed and grazing crops use almost exactly equal acre-feet of water per acre as
by apcragg 4y ago
Pistachios and Almonds use 4x less acreage than Alfalfa, hay, clover, etc. These feed and grazing crops use almost exactly equal acre-feet of water per acre as pistachios and almonds. It's a convenient direction to finger point at if you want to distract from the impact of animal feed agriculture.
https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2020_Ag_Stats_Review.pdf https://www.cdfa.ca.gov/Statistics/PDFs/2020_Ag_Stats_Review...