No rain in five years. His father met his mother, the cantors daughter, and they married. Damn, if he doesnt look even younger and more fit than the last time I saw him eight years earlier. He replenished it by shipping water from his property in Tulare County, 25 miles away, infuriating locals there. Not a single penny was put in that piggy bank.. Im sure I knew we had a pipeline in there. There, he tells me, in the shadow of the states great concrete vein moving snowmelt north to south, I will find a private, off-the-books pipeline that Stewart Resnick has built to keep his trees from dying. You look like Border Patrol undercover.. More recently, he earned $40 million in an easement deal with a water bank and exchange that seeks to siphon flood water out of a Kings County canal for storage in Kern County. Since the middle of the drought, the price of almonds has dropped almost by half. U.S. immigration has little say-so here. The net return on the pistachio proves that Wonderfuls dominance in the market has benefited every grower in the room. Only after the media were alerted did Stewart and Lynda claim to have discovered the clear-cutting. Scott: So we should talk about the labor that makes this all possible. She graduated from Duke University with a BA degree in biology. Being healthy is a choice. Vidovichs supporters like Wilson say he loves to help people, donating laptops to the struggling Stratford school district and inviting local Native Americans to his property to harvest reeds and teach basket-weaving traditions. Youre the one who needs to see., We pull out of the parking lot, past the palm trees and roses, and head up the thin ribbon of Highway 33 into the dust-swirling tunnel of nuts and fruits. It isnt a lot of water., Im not going to give you the numbers. Measuring the reach of the Resnicks, its tempting to lean on the hyperventilated language of the 1930s: Empire. The farmers there are raising almost 1 million acres of crops, and fewer than half these acres are irrigated with flows from the Kern. By harvests end, the Resnicks will have put their clamps on 4.4 million almond trees. He and Lynda decided in 1984 to buy the Franklin Mint, the maker of commemorative coins and other kitsch, for $167.5 million. His daughter, who used to own a restaurant, is busy raising her one son. It then dawned on him that guards were good, but they had to be paid an hourly wage. Among the graduating class are kids headed to Stanford, UC Berkeley, UCLA, Dartmouth, and the state and community college systems. Me, Im a carpetbagger from Beverly Hills. From the east side of Tulare County to the west side of Fresno County, theyre planting more nuts and Halos. Wonderful, by contrast, shoots for the middle. Boswell, who owned more land and controlled more water than any other person in the West for most of the 20th century. For a silent minute, we dig into our bowls. No one pushes their product harder. It was this persistence and, above all, good timing that explained his bigness. Marketplace host Amy Scott spoke with Mark Arax, who wrote an articlein The California Sunday Magazine about the Wonderful Companys farming business and issues of sustainability in the Central Valley. By the decree of Lynda, who once contemplated a bowl of those juicy little seedless mandarins and on the spot named them Cuties, this is now the land of Wonderful. So the company drafted a list of demands. I follow him inside to a long line of workers that ends at a plastic window where Hussein sits on the other side, working the cash register like a teller at a race track. He knows what I dont know.
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