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With no warning, state authorities have cut off irrigation water to ranchers in rural northern California, effectively shutting down cattle operations overnight and putting family-run farms out of business.
One rancher summed up the devastation plainly:
“We just found out we’re not going to be able to get any irrigation water, which shuts us down as ranchers.”
This isn’t hyperbole. Ranchers now face an impossible choice — sell off herds, abandon land, or go bankrupt. “We’re just kind of looking at just having to go out of business, you know, because that’s what we do here is raise cattle. And if we don’t have any water, that’s going to be taken away from us. We’ll go dry.”
For rural families who have been ranching for generations, this is a death sentence.
“What do you do with dry land that you can’t grow anything on? We’re all going to have to go out of business.”
The official justification? Environmental restoration and “fish-friendly diversions” tied to dam removal advocacy — projects championed by Congressman Jared Huffman, a former attorney for the Natural Resources Defense Council, and backed by Governor Gavin Newsom.
Both men have enjoyed political support and donations from Pacific Gas & Electric (PG&E), which operates the infrastructure in question.
The Bigger Picture: From California to the EU
This isn’t just about California. What we’re seeing here mirrors what’s already happened to Dutch farmers in Europe, where radical “green transition” policies — heavily influenced by global climate treaties and elite think tanks — have crippled agricultural production.
In the Netherlands, nitrogen emission caps forced farmers to slaughter livestock and shut down operations, sparking mass protests.
The playbook is eerily similar:
- Frame traditional farming as an environmental threat
- Use regulations and resource restrictions to make operations financially impossible
- Consolidate agricultural land under state or corporate control
These are the same tactics that the World Economic Forum (WEF) and allied institutions have been openly promoting for years. Under the banner of “sustainable development” and “net-zero,” they push policies that systematically dismantle small-scale, independent food producers in favor of centralized, technocratic food systems.
Why Target Ranchers?
Independent farmers and ranchers stand in the way of the elite vision for the future — one where synthetic lab-grown meat, insect protein, and corporate-controlled “precision agriculture” dominate the food supply.
If rural producers go bankrupt, their land can be scooped up for pennies on the dollar by investment firms and global agribusiness giants.
By cutting off water in California without warning, the state has effectively declared war on its own agricultural backbone. And whether intentional or not, the result serves the same agenda: fewer independent ranchers, more dependency on centralized food production, and more leverage for those who want to dictate what — and how — you eat.
The Dutch farmers have already been through this. Now it’s California’s turn. If this continues unchecked, it will be every rural community’s turn.
