Real Causes of Fallowed Acreage on the Westside?

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"NEW PAPER BY CALIFORNIA WATER RESEARCH ASSOCIATES AND RESTORE THE DELTA SHOWS THAT SAN JOAQUIN VALLEY LAND FALLOWING AND JOB LOSSES ARE TIED TO SOIL AND GROUNDWATER QUALITY - NOT PROTECTION FOR DELTA FISHERIES.

Stockton, California - California Water Research Associates of Santa Cruz and Restore the Delta of Stockton have released a new paper calling into question the real causes of fallowed farm acreage on the Westside of the San Joaquin Valley.

According to Restore the Delta senior policy analyst Jane Wagner-Tyack, "Reduced water deliveries to the San Joaquin Valley growers are not the primary cause behind fallowed fields. In fact, the majority of San Joaquin Valley lands fallowed starting in 2003 are still fallowed presently, despite west side valley growers receiving 85% of their 2011 water deliveries."

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HA! I love it. They're saying the more fresh water taken out of the delta, allows more salt water intrusion further and
further into the delta system,to the point that it's getting into the fresh water system? Or is it the fresh water being
added to soil that was once a completely flooded saltwater estuary and the salt has always been there but having
used up all the ground water and flooding the land from the top, year after year after year after year is bring that
deeply buried salt up to the surface.

It's already known the drain off from farmlands created 'Kesterson'. Why don't they bring that up again.
The farmers created a toxic lake from all their fertilizers and what not, that they've been adding to the soil...and
they want MORE fresh water to clear their fields and let it go somewhere else. That's what the cattle farmers
are doing that has been contaminating (remember E-coli) different 'downstream' vegetable farms that have been
getting into our food supply.

The farmers are creating a DEAD ZONE that will eventually spread across the entire artificially
watered land...and in the process, kill the delta.

It's the farmers OWN FAULT for irresponsibly dealing with the water get.
 
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