Then you understand perfectly well why it will become less costly to vaccinate poultry for bird flu rather than culling entire flocks. It's probably less costly already, but changing entrenched industry attitudes takes time.
A lot of greenhouse grown produce in California, either in a field or in a building, try to have total bio-containment complete with disinfectant boot dips when workers enter. Ultimately for quality produce it's a lot cheaper than pesticides.
Bud Antle leveraged-up to become the largest lettuce grower in the Salinas Valley, but a series of bacterial contamination meant the Bud Antle Corp lived on without Bud having any ownership stake. It's a risky business.
The largest almond, pomegranate and seedless tangerine growers in California and the world, Stewart and Lynda Resnick, live in a Rustic French Empire farmhouse in Bel Air, worth about $185 million. They share many of your concerns about farming in a changing world. They've even resorted to importing water from Fiji!
In most years, the Resnicks use more California water than is used by all of the residents of Los Angeles and the entire San Francisco Bay Area combined.
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