This year I know that CA will be importing both grain and hays in bulk because there was no rain. Right now you may see beef prices dropping here because ranchers are culling herds that they know they won't be able to feed this year. Same and worse for the horse market.
Water rights are going to be the greatest issue in the next decade. Cities and human populations living in 'reclaimed' deserts are draining the Colorado to the extent that we have significantly hurt the agriclutural areas here and in Mexico where the river USED to flow. Only Santa Barbara has bothered to get ahead of this by deslaination and claiming drinking water from the Ocean. Catalina as an island too does this.
To a lesser extent the brain drain from traditional bread belt states have shut down even more farms. People don't want to return to the country and run the family farm.
Importing Agriculture and water
Water rights are going to be the greatest issue in the next decade. Cities and human populations living in 'reclaimed' deserts are draining the Colorado to the extent that we have significantly hurt the agriclutural areas here and in Mexico where the river USED to flow.
Only Santa Barbara has bothered to get ahead of this by deslaination and claiming drinking water from the Ocean. Catalina as an island too does this.
To a lesser extent the brain drain from traditional bread belt states have shut down even more farms. People don't want to return to the country and run the family farm.