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Arable Land in the United States: California

Population Growth and Urbanization

Migrant Workers and Immigration

  • a recovery on the job market makes California look more prosperous, drawing in poor immigrants looking for a job
  • California has the largest number of undocumented immigrants, 2.6 million in 2010, a quarter of all immigrants in the US
  • migrant workers work ten hour day, six days a week for less then minimum wadge
  • this cheep labor is what keeps food prices so low
  • more migrant workers leads to more destruction to the land, due to living space and over farming the land
  • the most urbanized state in the nation
  • the population rate is the highest it has been in a decade, more then 38.2 million people, almost 7,000 people per square mile
  • more then half of California lives in just five counties, counties that are growing all the time
  • more people = more homes = less arable land
  • almost 50,000 acres of arable land are lost each year

Migrant Workers in California

Pros

Cons

Environmental Problems

  • takes away jobs from Americans
  • immigration rates
  • food prices would rise
  • cheep labor for a large profit
  • easy to replace
  • all, or most, family members can work
  • keeps food cheep

California

  • many of California's cities had been built on the best soil by a reliable water source
  • due to the expansion of cities into wildlife refugees, some arable land is being used to create wildlife refugees
  • too many farms and cities are using rivers and deltas, so they are drying up
  • urbanization is being pushed back into farms, thus farms must destroy forests to keep the production rate the same
  • almost half of California, 43%, is used for agriculture, or arable land
  • in California, 16 million acres are used for grazing land, 27 million for cropland, and 9 million acres are used for irrigation, a total of 52 million acres used
  • Michigan has about 63 million total acres

What is arable land?

Possible Solutions

  • arable land is defined as land that is suitable for growing crops
  • there are 3.794 million square miles of arable land in the United States, roughly 8.09 acres total land per person.
  • out of that only 2.02 acres of land per person is good for growing crops
  • most of the arable land in the US comes from California
  • to improve production, there are new technologies such as high yielding cultivators and pesticides to make produce grow faster
  • decrease amount of land being urbanized,but keeping people on already urbanized land
  • crack down on immigration
  • solving one problem creates another

Discussion questions

  • What do you think is the best solution?
  • Should we stop cities from urbanizing?
  • How would a price increase in food affect you?
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