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...sales, which had grown by an average 6% annually during the 1970s, suddenly flattened in 1982 at about 360 million gal., and have grown only marginally since then. Growers who planted their vines in anticipation of blossoming demand are finding a market that has shriveled like a raisin. Thompson seedless grapes, a basic variety that fetched $200 per ton in 1981, now sell for as low as $50. For many farmers, such prices are far below the cost of growing the grapes...
...farm, Maass says he hopes to develop "a new type of irrigation." He wants to bring exotic crops, such as Italian seedless to intoes, into the Mojave Desert or somewhere similar, and is "fairly far along in working out the project." He says the prospect of living out of a trailer in the desert doesn't faze him since he does not plan to live there full-time...
...preferred crop today is sinsemilla (a seedless marijuana produced through intensive cultivation of only the female plant) that has a very high concentration of tetrahydrocannabinol, or THC, marijuana's psychoactive ingredient. Sinsemilla produces a heady euphoria and sells for around $2,000 per lb. This is roughly the yield from a single plant. The sinsemilla produced by U.S. growers is so prized that seeds have been smuggled into Mexico and Colombia to enrich crops there...
Browsing through the produce section of a Kroger's store in Montgomery, W. Va., in June, Mirhadi Seyedashraf,, 28, a senior studying engineering at the West Virginia Institute of Technology, picked up one white seedless grape to test it. Very quickly, the young Iranian learned that the casual shopping habits of the market stalls in his own country were not those of suspicious American supermarkets...
California is by no means the vinous El Dorado pictured by its publicists or by many writers who would not know a Chardonnay grape from a supermarket Thompson Seedless. Americans using the Pinot Noir grape of Burgundy have yet to make a red wine that is remotely equal to its ancestor in body and authority. Many California wines, particularly the often overpraised Zinfandels, lack finesse and balance. Some, like Heitz Martha...