Essay On California Geography

California geography in the 1860s were wide and flat valleys with a limited population what made what the ideal crop. California physical geography in the 1860s were flat and wide in the valleys which made wheat the ideal crop ideal crop, Before the panic of 1893, wheat was “profitable agricultural commodity” (201).The central valley of California improved agricultural through the development of technology such as “planting, pulverizing the earth, spreading the seeds in one operation, and improvements on cutting and threshing of grain” (pg. 202) California physical geography led to a prosperous agricultural and diversity various types of
Soil, climate and 118 different types of farms. California produced 300 different types of nuts, fruits, and vegetables and had specialization farms for canning or drying fruits. Farming in the 20th century started becoming

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Agricultural engineers in 1961 developed a mechanical tomato picker that would gently pick up the tomato and place it inside a box and mechanical thumb when pressed would pick up the lettuce. Mechanical tree was developed by agricultural scientist which would shake fruit and nuts off a tree. A labor shortage occurred in California which resulted Mexican immigrants being imported to California to work in agricultural. The United States Department of Agricultural were in charge of “recruiting, contracting, transportation, housing, feeding temporary immigrant farm worker” (pg. 374) known as the bracero program but the government and growers disregarded the act. Since the 1920s, about 58,000 Mexican migrated to the central valley working on the cotton field. The Bracero program stricken with poverty, poor wages, destroyed the bargaining of domestic workers and drove away local labor. Cesar Chavez formed the national farm workers Association (NFWA) with co-founder Dolores Huerta who was a labor organizer and a community activist. The