“He was leasing some of his land for solar panels ... He doesn't just grow grapes ... shifted some of that to areas that have more water, but also solar panels”
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Said on Bloomberg Intelligence
“Agave is uses, I think, two inches of water per year ... grapes, I think, 60 inches per year ... labor costs in California have, I think, tripled”
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What was described
plant agave instead of grapes to grow a low-water, low-labor crop
agave uses ~2 inches of water per year; grapes need ~60 inches per year; labor costs for grapes have tripled
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“We have over a million farmers in India already using the system. It tells them what crop disease they have, what fertilizer to use, what varieties to plant.”
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Said on The Ezra Klein Show
“We tell people to pull the plant out of the gallon and then rip the root system apart… so the roots will grow in different directions and not follow the same pattern.”
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Romero Lobo
In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners ·
“I would say if you can put two gallons every other day, a gallon per plant, per mature plant, that would probably be enough.”
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Romero Lobo
In the Garden with UC Master Gardeners ·
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