California Agriculture

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California Agriculture

• Intensive, Extensive
• Commercial, Subsistence
• Agribusiness
• Mechanization
• Artificial inputs chemicals, antibiotics,
  hormones, GMFs
• Irrigation
• Vertical Horizontal Integration
• Californias Agricultural Cities and Regions

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• Central Valley Farms

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Lompoc, ranching
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  Castroville, artichokes

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• Gilroy, garlic

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• Fallbrook, Avocados

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• Salinas,
  lettuce

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• Bakersfield, almonds
• Rice, Colusa Co.

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• Wine grapes, Napa Valley

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• Cotton, central valley

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California Industry

• Globalization Deindustrialization
• Why Economic Restructuring?
• OPEC, 1970s
• End of Cold War
• Environmental Action
• Unionized Labor
• Technology
• Free Trade Policy
• Californias New Economy
• Loss of middle-class
• Polarization of wealth
• Disciplining of labor
• High Tech Bubble
• Real Estate Bubble
• Global Assembly Line

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• Grand Opening,Van Nuys Chevrolet Plant, 1947

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