This crop could be a solution for farmers dealing with drought
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- For as easy as it can be to pass off rural places as disconnected from the day-to-day of big cities, Craig Reynolds can help people understand how close the link is between the dinner table and the fields of Yolo County, California.
For as easy as it can be to pass off rural places as disconnected from the day-to-day of big cities, Craig Reynolds can help people understand how close the link is between the dinner table and the fields of Yolo County, California.
“We grow everything. We’re the world food basket, right here, where you are," Reynolds said.
Reynolds is the director of the California Agave Council, a new trade organization made up of growers and distillers.
With drought often a top topic of conversation among farmers in the West, Reynolds is one of the leaders working to see if agave can be grown on a large, commercial scale in California.
“Agave seemed to me an ideal crop of low water use that would thrive in California with our increasing temperatures due to climate change," Reynolds said as he walked through a field of agave plants on a farm near Sacramento.
Agave is a succulent, often grown in Mexico. It is harvested to make spirits like tequila and mezcal, terms Reynolds pointed out can only be used when the agave comes from certain Mexican regions.
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