In the Central Valley, drought fears ease, but farmers contend with a new threat: Trump

[Zorro]

It’s almost impossible to get a rise from my favorite farmer, Joe Del Bosque, who grows almonds, melons and asparagus here on the perpetually water-challenged west side of the San Joaquin Valley.

After years of drought, suddenly everything is green. It’s raining like crazy, the infamous pumps of the Sacramento Delta are working overtime to fill reservoirs to the south and all over the state, dry fields have become muddy lakes.

“So what are you Westside farmers whining about now?” I asked Del Bosque when I visited him Monday in his office, a modest double-wide trailer on the edge of an almond orchard off Interstate 5.

He chuckled. Farmers are always complaining about something. If they aren’t complaining, it’s because they’re too busy worrying.

http://www.latimes.com/local/abcarian/la-me-abcarian-farmer-trump-20170215-story.html

[msongs]

1. maybe ivanka and melania can get jobs in the fields when their man deports the workers nt

[Tikki]

2. The two big sons and Ivank's husband and the young one can carry water in a bucket

with a ladle to quench their thirst.

Good ole Great American sweat.

Tikki

[vanlassie]

3. In the Central Valley, farmers planted huge Make America Great Again banners

in their fields in the sides of boxcars. They can go fuck themselves right now.