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Default Cold Snap Destroys Most Calif. Citrus

Bob Kolker wrote:
> Rudy Canoza wrote:
> >
> > Nope. No valid reason at all. Farming is a business. Farmers should
> > be treated as, and behave as, other business people.

>
> The auto industry can go under but we will manage to survive. But if all
> the farmers croak, then what. Do we live in wild berries and roots?


Farmers aren't all going to croak.


>
> At the root of every civilization in the last 10,000 years, there was
> the farmer.


There is nothing magical or mystical about farming. It's a business.