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Topic: The Death of College Football - Realignment, NIL, Portal, Etc.

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SFBadger96

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« Reply #3458 on: Today at 01:27:35 PM »
Well, on behalf of California, I want to say thank Iowa for growing/raising so much of our food.

It really helps us focus on things like inventing the technologies driving the world's future. Tough to do that on an empty stomach!

[and we continue to grow more food for the US than any other state, although Iowa and Nebraska punch way above their weight (and yes, those jokes write themselves)]

I was somewhat recently in Alabama with a good friend who lives there (and is from Louisiana). He loves Alabama, "except all the damn Alabamians."

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« Reply #3459 on: Today at 01:30:09 PM »
[and we continue to grow more food for the US than any other state, although Iowa and Nebraska punch way above their weight (and yes, those jokes write themselves)]

I was somewhat recently in Alabama with a good friend who lives there (and is from Louisiana). He loves Alabama, "except all the damn Alabamians."
This still surprises me given all the water issues out there.
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« Reply #3460 on: Today at 02:12:55 PM »
This still surprises me given all the water issues out there.
I wonder what leads to that. The state is lower than I’d expect in farm acres. 

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« Reply #3461 on: Today at 03:06:18 PM »
California has the most land (I'm guessing, I haven't bothered to look that up), and most of it seems farm-able to me (I haven't looked that up either).  Texas, meanwhile, loses lots of square miles in poor farming land.  The entire hill country, for example, is not too good for farming.  Some of the more desertish areas too, I reckon. 

No surprise CA would be the biggest food producer. 

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« Reply #3462 on: Today at 03:10:34 PM »
California has the most land (I'm guessing, I haven't bothered to look that up), and most of it seems farm-able to me (I haven't looked that up either).  Texas, meanwhile, loses lots of square miles in poor farming land.  The entire hill country, for example, is not too good for farming.  Some of the more desertish areas too, I reckon. 

No surprise CA would be the biggest food producer. 

Alaska's even bigger, surely they have a lot of farmland and a lot of people working those farms.

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« Reply #3463 on: Today at 03:16:12 PM »
Ice farming doesn't count.  

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« Reply #3464 on: Today at 03:49:12 PM »
California has the most land (I'm guessing, I haven't bothered to look that up), and most of it seems farm-able to me (I haven't looked that up either).  Texas, meanwhile, loses lots of square miles in poor farming land.  The entire hill country, for example, is not too good for farming.  Some of the more desertish areas too, I reckon. 

No surprise CA would be the biggest food producer. 
No hills or deserts in CA. 

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« Reply #3465 on: Today at 06:49:38 PM »
California's water issues are...complicated. The middle and northern parts of the Central Valley have also been referred to as the inland sea, which were (and frequently are) well supplied by Sierra Nevada snowmelt (from those hills that don't exist). Historically, much of it does get a fair amount of water. The problem is the biggest part of the state's population lives in a place that doesn't have much natural water, so it gets it by shipping it from elsewhere--both northern California and the Colorado River. I think--if I recall correctly--California is actually very productive per farming acre, so it's not merely a big state; it's a big state with very productive farm land.

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« Reply #3466 on: Today at 07:11:07 PM »
Why don't they just desalinate the ocean water? 

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« Reply #3467 on: Today at 07:18:15 PM »
Why don't they just desalinate the ocean water?
It's not cost-effective.  Yet?
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