I'm John Baster with Victor Davis Hanson, a senior fellow for the Hoover Institution,

a classist, also a farmer.

San Joaquin Valley, the

Central Valley, the bread basket of the solar system,

and water.

Over the years learned from Victor's good friend,

Devon Nunez, former congressman,

now CEO of Truth Social and the Vineyard, Evan Newness, that water

is the driver for bounty in the San Joaquin Valley.

And Victor, in a recent podcast, walked me through the steps one more time, but here's the irony. There's plenty of water. The snowpack is huge. The water, it rained all winter into the spring.

There's water in the American River.

There's water in the Sacramento River.

Why not in the San Joaquin Valley?

Why are they holding you back

from producing more of everything? There's 5 million acres in the center of the state and the eastern part

where we are near the Sierra, we have local irrigation districts

so we don't need large transfer transfer so we depend and we can get

water from the Sierra and then it enriches and replenishes our groundwater but

that's not most of the acreage as you point, it's along the west side, 5 million acres. And that

water depends on vast transfers from Northern California where one third of the people live,

but three times the water of the state falls there and

that this is a wet year not as quite as wet as the record year but it's getting

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