Simon Reeve : The Americas.

[Chasingmytail]

absolutely brilliant been reading about the problems of water table years ago. When rich people live in the desert there is a lot of demand for water. Pesticide run off has been known for decades its very bad in the states.

 

[jondear]

The poverty in LA is unbelievable!
Beyonce and JZ s mansion 88 million dollars down a few blocks people on the streets living in tents!

 

[Campbell]

Clearly shows the yawning gap between the haves and have nots, really thought the USA could be doing better by now. But welfare is clearly for 'loozzerzs' in a low tax economy.

 

[steveR]

Used to take combines through on 2 hwy, closest I ever got to Sidney. FA in eastern Montana.

Seem to recall they had some land near Willitson, just off Hwy 2 Went out for the day to look at some beet!

 

[jpd]

California tonight , best soil on the planet there apparently plus ...interesting piece on migrant labour.....
...and water use by cattle...... plus more much more......

i wondered about that
without irrigation water it is useless
a saying here is
land without water is not land at all

 

[Still Farming]

Women living in the hollow sections of a motorway fly over was incredibly sad.

 

[farmerm]

I didn't see all the program but there was certainly a slight tone of farmer bashing in some of what I did watch... There are issues to be raised regards to food production methods, irrigation water and pesticide use and the impact it has but when urban Jo public sees a programmes that portray "farmers" and "farming" in a bad light it undermines all of us, to average Jo farmers are farmers. There is a constant drip, drip of anti farmer material in the media, just like for decades there was a constant drip, drip of anti EU messages.

 

[lazy farmer]

It goes to point out that food production systems world wide are unsustainable.

 

[Yale]

Was I the only one to notice it was announced the migrants were picking sugar beet for sugar production only for them to be picking,topping and tailing turnips.

 

[Woolless]

Weaning would need a yard.

Not necessarily. Saw theem weaning a calf on the pampas when we were on an Argentinean estancia. They roped the calf and put a quiet wean nose pricker on. Don't know when they were actually going to separate them.

 

[farmerm]

It goes to point out that food production systems world wide are unsustainable.

You and I can infer that. Jo public just infers that farmers are recklessly damaging the environment in the name of profit. Most food production systems are unsustainable, water consumption in many parts of the world is at unsustainable levels, fossil fuel demands are unsustainable, the human population on this planet is unsustainable... Unsustainability inevitably leads to instability, war and death.

Was I the only one to notice it was announced the migrants were picking sugar beet for sugar production only for them to be picking,topping and tailing turnips.

Yes I was scratching my head, thought it odd harvesting sugar beet by hand and then odder when I saw the sugar beet... also I note that if you or I employed illegal, undocumented migrates on our farms we would get locked up but in the US it seems just fine...

 

[Bury the Trash]

Was I the only one to notice it was announced the migrants were picking sugar beet for sugar production only for them to be picking,topping and tailing turnips.

Thats what i thought they looked like, round and purple and they were using dagging shears ... not a knife .
Nothing wrong with hand pulling, but as a mentioned above ... why not use a harvester... ? Bit behind the times....
Couldnt get the locals to pull them either though could they...

 

[Still Farming]

It goes to point out that food production systems world wide are unsustainable.

Think we hot enough water over here so no drain there here.

 

[lazy farmer]

Think we hot enough water over here so no drain there here.

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[Still Farming]

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The programme showed water usage and depletion in California