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Post by holidayhusker on Aug 10, 2020 13:00:20 GMT -5
Funny story, my cousin married a girl from Northern California. The ceremony was here in western Nebraska and she asked if we had running water? When the family came out they were very concerned About getting accidentally shot by a hunter. Lots of money, absolutely no common sense. Funny story... Here in Los Angeles, I met a guy from Western Nebraska, or maybe it was Eastern Wyoming, it is really hard to tell where the border is (hahaha, big belly laugh). Anyway, this guy wants a glass of milk. Asked me where the cows were. No common sense. Isn't that just the funniest story you ever heard? Did you have to make a trip to the zoo to see a cow?It sounds like you and the guy from Wyoming have something personal going on, none of my business.
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Post by BearClause on Aug 10, 2020 13:05:52 GMT -5
Funny story... Here in Los Angeles, I met a guy from Western Nebraska, or maybe it was Eastern Wyoming, it is really hard to tell where the border is (hahaha, big belly laugh). Anyway, this guy wants a glass of milk. Asked me where the cows were. No common sense. Isn't that just the funniest story you ever heard? Did you have to make a trip to the zoo to see a cow?It sounds like you and the guy from Wyoming have something personal going on, none of my business. Don't know about LA County (which used to be mostly farmland), but around here all it takes is getting in a car for 10 minutes and seeing dairy cattle grazing.
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Post by holidayhusker on Aug 10, 2020 13:30:38 GMT -5
Did you have to make a trip to the zoo to see a cow?It sounds like you and the guy from Wyoming have something personal going on, none of my business. Don't know about LA County (which used to be mostly farmland), but around here all it takes is getting in a car for 10 minutes and seeing dairy cattle grazing. pWhat area of California do you live in?
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2020 13:50:32 GMT -5
35-40 miles from LA there are still a few dairies. . . not many because the land value has made it less lucrative to run a dairy than sell to a home developer or warehousing. Most of the dairies that left Chino mooooved to Central California.
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Post by BearClause on Aug 10, 2020 14:07:49 GMT -5
Don't know about LA County (which used to be mostly farmland), but around here all it takes is getting in a car for 10 minutes and seeing dairy cattle grazing. pWhat area of California do you live in? San Francisco Bay Area. There's commercial dairy/beef cattle in every county in the Bay Area except San Francisco County. East Bay Regional Parks does vegetation control via grazing leases. There's always been a mix of farmland and suburbs, although a lot of farmers are selling out to housing development. I used to bike in the surrounding hills and there are cows and horses everywhere. We know where our milk comes from.
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Post by BearClause on Aug 10, 2020 14:11:48 GMT -5
35-40 miles from LA there are still a few dairies. . . not many because the land value has made it less lucrative to run a dairy than sell to a home developer or warehousing. Most of the dairies that left Chino mooooved to Central California. The last dairy ranches in Los Angeles County are in the Antelope Valley. But LA County is very different than the Bay Area. Much of the land in the Bay Area is still rural.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 10, 2020 14:26:30 GMT -5
When I was staying there for a test, I heard a number of stories about why Antelope Valley is called that even though there are no Pronghorns in it. (Pronghorns aren't actually even antelope, but leaving that aside....)
Wikipedia says they were mostly killed off by a series of bad winters in the 1880s. Supposedly they refused to cross the railroad tracks to move to where there was less snow, so they starved. Personally I find this hard to believe. Very few animals would rather starve than do something as simple as cross some railroad tracks.
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Post by holidayhusker on Aug 10, 2020 14:30:40 GMT -5
pWhat area of California do you live in? San Francisco Bay Area. There's commercial dairy/beef cattle in every county in the Bay Area except San Francisco County. East Bay Regional Parks does vegetation control via grazing leases. There's always been a mix of farmland and suburbs, although a lot of farmers are selling out to housing development. I used to bike in the surrounding hills and there are cows and horses everywhere. We know where our milk comes from. I am just glad a liberal Californian knows where milk does come from.
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Post by BearClause on Aug 10, 2020 14:31:03 GMT -5
When I was staying there for a test, I heard a number of stories about why Antelope Valley is called that even though there are no Pronghorns in it. (Pronghorns aren't actually even antelope, but leaving that aside....) Wikipedia says they were mostly killed off by a series of bad winters in the 1880s. Supposedly they refused to cross the railroad tracks to move to where there was less snow, so they starved. Personally I find this hard to believe. Very few animals would rather starve than do something as simple as cross some railroad tracks. The northern reaches of Los Angeles County are kind of weird because that's where they drew more or less straight lines. Lancaster and Palmdale aren't exactly geographically related to the rest of the county. I've never been there. Once looked into staying in the area for an event at Edwards AFB. Couldn't find a room though.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2020 14:39:45 GMT -5
35-40 miles from LA there are still a few dairies. . . not many because the land value has made it less lucrative to run a dairy than sell to a home developer or warehousing. Most of the dairies that left Chino mooooved to Central California. The last dairy ranches in Los Angeles County are in the Antelope Valley. But LA County is very different than the Bay Area. Much of the land in the Bay Area is still rural. Chino isn't LA County. It's the SW most corner of San Bernardino County, about 35-40 miles from DTLA. Still nothing like it used to be dairy ranch wise. The DeHoog family (Carly DeHoog UW Alum and 2017 All American) are local dairy farmers from the area, I believe one of the last remaining.
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Post by Deleted on Aug 10, 2020 14:40:40 GMT -5
Lancaster and Palmdale aren't exactly geographically related to the rest of the county. I've never been there. Once looked into staying in the area for an event at Edwards AFB. Couldn't find a room though. Consider yourself fortunate.
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Post by BearClause on Aug 10, 2020 14:42:29 GMT -5
San Francisco Bay Area. There's commercial dairy/beef cattle in every county in the Bay Area except San Francisco County. East Bay Regional Parks does vegetation control via grazing leases. There's always been a mix of farmland and suburbs, although a lot of farmers are selling out to housing development. I used to bike in the surrounding hills and there are cows and horses everywhere. We know where our milk comes from. I am just glad a liberal Californian knows where milk does come from. California is the #1 dairy state. Just ask Devin Nunes' Cow. There was a milk brand called Berkeley Farms (owned by Dean Foods) that just went out of existence after Dean filed for bankruptcy. However, I remember their distribution facility in Emeryville just south of Berkeley. Contra Costa and Alameda aren't really all that heavy with dairy cattle, but there's tons of it around. The big worries is that they're grazing near the watersheds that feed into drinking water reservoirs, and the possibility of cryptosporidium. Uber liberal Marin County is far more agricultural. Their population centers are in a narrow corridor near US-101 while the West Marin area is mostly forests and farmland. There's also an existing relationship between the National Park Service and several dairy and beef ranches at Point Reyes National Seashore.
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Post by BearClause on Aug 10, 2020 14:45:39 GMT -5
Lancaster and Palmdale aren't exactly geographically related to the rest of the county. I've never been there. Once looked into staying in the area for an event at Edwards AFB. Couldn't find a room though. Consider yourself fortunate. I've driven through the Central Valley. There's a certain ripe odor going past the Harris Ranch Feedlot.
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Post by mikegarrison on Aug 10, 2020 14:45:56 GMT -5
When I was staying there for a test, I heard a number of stories about why Antelope Valley is called that even though there are no Pronghorns in it. (Pronghorns aren't actually even antelope, but leaving that aside....) Wikipedia says they were mostly killed off by a series of bad winters in the 1880s. Supposedly they refused to cross the railroad tracks to move to where there was less snow, so they starved. Personally I find this hard to believe. Very few animals would rather starve than do something as simple as cross some railroad tracks. The northern reaches of Los Angeles County are kind of weird because that's where they drew more or less straight lines. Lancaster and Palmdale aren't exactly geographically related to the rest of the county. I've never been there. Once looked into staying in the area for an event at Edwards AFB. Couldn't find a room though. I've been to Lancaster a couple of times. It's a reasonably convenient place to stay if you have business at Edwards. One time I was there for a month.
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Post by geddyleeridesagain on Aug 10, 2020 15:01:16 GMT -5
Cows...in Berkeley?
Anyone else remember that commercial?
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