Chad-Troy-Troll, what is the purpose of the name change again? One minute your the Troll from Handford, then your Troy Kitchen, and now Chad Daxler? Yes, I stand corrected, I pay for the “RIGHTS” to water for my property, then I pay additionally for any water allocation through distribution, not to mention property taxes and all the other taxes that provide inalienable rights. With respect to water availability and my orchard, when I do have water, my agroecological organic garden of an orchard runs harmoniously with nature. My trees provide habitats to more species than your paved streets and houses could ever. Not to mention all the carbon sequestering the trees are performing to remove your vehicles CO2. And yes, they provide my family and I an source of revenue, albeit not anything close to millions.
Like many other farmers, I have a career outside the farm. You sound like you have some issues Troy-Chad-Troll. You will argue with the fence post for the sake of arguing, your bitterness shines, maybe a little envious towards the people whom feed you and the world because you personally cannot grow your own food, and unlike you, we are environmentalist, we are sustainable, we are regenerative, and we are naturist. Thank you Chad/Troy/Troll for your follow up comment outlining I pay for my “Right” to water, but the state disenfranchises that right! As someone with strong connections to Kings Educational, I am saddened to see you fall from an scholar in high school to a felon. Hope you find your path Chad-Troy-Troll, if that is who you are.

You pay for rights if water flows in that area Frank? Don’t like it stop buying! How is this cost so high but farmers still millionaires? Oh yes they use migrants and scream the wall needs to be built. KEEP GROWING CASH CROPS THAT DESTROY THE ENVIRONMENT. KEEP GROWING POMEGRANATES AND ALMONDS PUTTING PROFITS OVER CALIFORNIA WATER!!

And your lame attempt to dodge my questions from my recasting of what you said, illustrates you lack the presence of those stones you speak of. Simply put, your being challenged for spewing fallacious nonsense. I realize your out of your element on this subject, and Wikipedia nor Google possess the answers to my questions. If we dig deep enough, there is no simple truth. Sadly, the government for forty plus years has screwed the pooch on this matter. For the record, I will do one of two things in the coming years, sell my land to one of the large capital hedge fund groups, which by the way service your 401k portfolio and have found ag property to be an extremely popular diversification opportunity, so any policy effecting water, will in some form, effect the majority of the populous with an 401k, or I will just push the carbon sequestering orchard, and put in a beautiful array of solar panels surrounded by the beauty of an fence with razor wire. What is the simple truth, we all lose, including you Saul, your just too blinded by your arrogance to see it. So Godspeed and I wish you luck.

Your lame recasting of what I posted does not change the simple truth of what I posted. I can only hope that State of California regulators have the stones to properly implement SGMA and the 2018 Bay-Delta flow plan. Healthy ecosystems can coexist with a reasonable amount of farming water diversion from the rivers.

Saul, explain exactly how I and other growers are welfare whiners, when we pay thousands of dollars for water deliveries annually, only for those deliveries to be unsatisfied year after year? Do you pay for thousands of dollars on anything that you never receive? Your comment and attempt in sarcasm illustrates your truly out of touch on this subject matter. I am a small farmer. I have farmed in this valley for thirty years. My fruit stays right here in the Valley and feeds this valley populous. Contrary to your opinion, my “jars of fruit” do not go to China. To educate you, the current decisions being made by this administration will lead to multi-generational small farms and families losing their livelihood. It will also result in small communities being without a serviceable surface water source. All because of direct mismanagement and the multitude of failures of the current and past administrations’. I do not find humor in that, and anyone who does, truly needs to check themselves. Do you find humor in people losing their businesses? Is filing for bankruptcy or selling everything off “Propaganda?” I would suggest that either you educate yourself on the matter, or try to refrain from commenting, because your truly out of touch with the complexity of water in this valley and what is transpriing in agriculture.