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There’s something really sad about watching a man walk through his books and realize he would have made more money sticking his savings in a random bank account than growing food.

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That’s the reality of this Southern California avocado farmer. This man picked 52,616 pounds of avocados, with a retail value of $68,000. On paper, that sounds like a decent haul, right? Until you see where all the money actually goes.

And once you do, you start to understand why small California farmers are getting smashed.

Wall Street Apes:

My jaw hit the floor watching this

A Southern California Avocado farmer shows how impossible it is to run his business in California now

“We picked 52,616 pounds of avocados, which has a retail value of $68,000.” Here’s the breakdown:

Total Pounds: 526616
Gross Income: $68,252.19
Assessments: -$1,578.48
Pickers Cost: -$15,900.00
Net Income: $50,777.73
Water Cost: -$37,741.87
Management: -$33,235.35
Taxes: -$10,000.00

Profit: -$30,203.51

He says they’re going to likely have to sell off to one of the larger companies. Smaller farmers can’t make it

What makes the clip so incredibly powerful is just how ordinary it feels. Think about it, this man grew the crop, harvested it, and paid his workers. He managed all the costs, paid his taxes, and still ended the year in the red.

That’s not exactly the “American Dream,” right?

Now, this poor guy is sitting here, staring at his books, wondering if it’s even rational to continue.

And this isn’t some isolated case.

Even mainstream outlets are acknowledging what’s happening to California avocado growers.

Nine out of ten avocados consumed in the United States now come from Mexico. That has totally reshaped the industry. Cali farmers aren’t just competing with each other; they’re now wrapped up in a global supply chain that operates under totally different labor costs, regulatory frameworks, and completely different water conditions.

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And to make matters worse, California’s cost structure just keeps soaring. Water pricing has surged under years of drought management and infrastructure madness. Labor mandates have gone off the rails. Regulatory compliance is an absolute convoluted mess, and development continues to reduce available agricultural land.

The LA Times makes it sound like some random struggle to survive. But the farmer says it’s a business they’ve been very carefully kicked out of.

But all of these messy conditions that are now shaping this industry didn’t just magically pop up. California’s labor mandates, water policy, environmental regulations, and business climate are all thanks to deliberate decisions made by state leadership.

Governor Gavin Newsom is parading around the globe, pushing his national profile and positioning himself as a future presidential contender. Meanwhile, his state is buckling under his cruddy, failed leadership. Small agricultural operations are disappearing into the hands of larger players who can absorb losses and scale production.

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This shouldn’t shock anyone. Just look at what happened to San Francisco, a once celebrated city that Newsom destroyed with his same ideological agendas over economic stability. Businesses bailed, commercial districts died, and public confidence circled the drain. But Newsom went on his merry way and is now destroying the entire state the same way.

Wall Street Apes:

If you haven’t be to San Diego recently, you have no idea how bad it’s gotten under Democrats

California resident “I’ve lived here for almost 10 years now — I have just seen downtown San Diego rapidly decline — The homeless have always been there. It’s always been an issue, but it hasn’t been as big of an issue as it is now, there is human feces, piss and shit all over downtown. It is not getting cleaned up. It is not”

“Needles everywhere, drug bags everywhere. It is a dump. The city has a stench to it that I can’t even, I literally can’t even explain it — This just getting absolutely ridiculous — The city is f*cking nasty and the homeless are, they’re literally dying in front of us. Like, it’s just, it’s crazy to me. It is absolutely crazy and it’s like a humanitarian issue”

And Americans are literally fleeing these failing blue states.

OSZ:

CNN: Democrats face tough electoral college after 2030

Biggest Population Growth This decade:
🔴 Texas
🔴 Florida
🔴 North Carolina
🔴 Georgia
🔴 Arizona

Biggest Population Decline This decade:
🔵 California
🔵 New York
🔵 Illinois
🔵 New Jersey
🔵 Massachusetts

Agriculture now faces a similar downward spiral.

For a farmer, when it stops being financially responsible to produce food, that signals the entire economic environment is no longer supporting the people who built it.

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California’s agricultural identity has been cultivated over generations. If local producers are now questioning whether they can remain viable, that raises serious questions about how the state is being managed and who is actually benefiting from the current structure. Because it sure as heck doesn’t seem like it’s the local American farmer.

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