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Food Inflation Watch: California Farmers' Water Costs Surge 700% After Government Cuts Supply

by Tyler Durden on 07/24/2014 20:50 -0400

When we reported on the government's decisiosn to withhold irrigation water to California for the first time in 54 years, we warned there would be consequences: farmers are hit hardest as "they're all on pins and needles trying to figure out how they're going to get through this." Fields will go unplanted (supply lower mean food prices higher), or farmers will pay top dollar for water that's on the market (and those costs can only be passed on via higher food prices). Sure enough, as Bloomberg reports, farmers in California’s Central Valley, the world’s most productive agricultural region, are paying as much as 10 times more for water than they did before the state’s record drought cut supply.



As Bloomberg Briefs' Alison Vekshin reports,

http://www.zerohedge.com/news/2014-07-24/food-inflation-watch-california-farmers-water-costs-surge-700-after-government-cuts-