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- A farmer is very hard working.
- gets up early in the morning
- takes his plough
- with his cattle goes to his field even before it is full                  daylight.
- He works there all day without caring for the weather. (told from the perspective of one farmer).

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They must check that their tools and materials are clean and ready to work.
- Activities:
checking on crops, plowing or bailing up grass for cows to eat in the winter, and general farm maintenance.

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-every year new farming softwares for farming machines get developed

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-most important sector of californian agriculture is milk industry
-it has developed and improved it's technology more rapidly than in other states
-they have much better milking and milk processing machines

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-most progress in technology because of Binational Agricultural Research and Development (BARD) program with Israel
-develop new wheat and rice varieties

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-there are a lot of AgTech Start-ups
-try to revolutionize the agricluture in california
-for example: Benson Hill - Start-up which trys to invent more healthier and sustainable food
-or: Apeel Sciences - Start-up which develops plant-derived shelf life extension technology for fresh produce that improves quality and reduces food waste

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-a lot of major growers, industry veterans and serial entrepreneurs are placed in Salinas Valley in California and try to get their breakthrough with new technologys

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- Agriculture = important part of California‘s economy
- 2018 50 billion Dollars
- in California about 400 different cultivations
- over a third of the country’s vegetables and two-thirds of the country’s fruits and nuts are cultivated in California

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-2018 average farm size = 328ha

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-in whole California 2017 about 25,3 million acres

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-to search for problems they use aerial imagery by planes

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-develop robotic tractors and drones

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-tomato farm machines
-first machine was developed 1968
-specific tomato varieties for the machines

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More than half of the nuts, fruits and vegetables grown in the United States are grown there in California

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- The water resources in California are heaviy attacked
- California has been suffering from drought for years
- Water shortage because of the drought
- negative impact on the Californian agriculture
--> Farmers are forced to reduce their water use so that they save up water for other purposes.
Many Farmers have agreed to reduce their water use by 25%

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80% of the water pumbed from rivers and streams goes to agriculture

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There is a problem:
Farmers are forced to reduce their water use by 25%
--> 25% less agricultural products.
--> Farmers give up 25% of their income.

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According to UC Merced:
- nearly 400,000 ha of agricultural land unplanted last year because of the water shortage.
--> result = direct economic cost to farmers of $1.1 billion and the loss of nearly 9,000 agricultural jobs.

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- Some farmers are complaining about minimum wage and less income.

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Sierra Pacific Industries is the largest private landowner and lumb-producer in California. Sierra Pacific owns approximately 2 million acres in California and Washington

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California's wine industry has been in the midst of an ongoing boom for more than 30 years. In 1975, California was home to about 330 wineries; In 2006, there were almost 2,500. The demand as well as the prices became higher and higher, which can be seen, for example, in the ever-increasing number of wineries.

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Above, V. Sattui Winery in the Napa Valley was etabilished in 1885

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Important grape growing areas of California, 2006

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Of all the federal states of the United States of America, California operates 90% of wine production

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In California, almost all agriculture relies on water from the mountains in the north and the Sierra Nevada, which is routed via a distribution system to the center, the Central Valley and the south.

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- According to few famrers the work is also exhausting.

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The hot climate and the sun make it difficult to work:
- hard physical work

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- Farmers rate their happiness above average.
- At CareerExplorer, they conduct an ongoing survey with millions of people and ask them how satisfied they are with their careers. As it turns out, farmers rate their career happiness 3.5 out of 5 stars

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CA grows 90% or more of the U.S. production of Organic almonds, artichokes, avocados, broccoli, cauliflower, celery, dates, figs, grapes, strawberries, lemons, lettuce, plums, and walnuts.