Higher production expected over 2010 harvest Broccoli: Up 8%. Cantaloupes: Up 4%. Nationally up 11%. Carrots: Up 30% above 2010. Nationally, up 30%. Cauliflower: Up 3%. Celery: Up 4%. Sweet Corn: Up 5%. Nationally, up 12%. Lower production expectedCalifornia’s fall harvest of storage onion, head lettuce, honeydew and tomato numbers are expected to be less [...]
photo source: flickr by ah zut ~ “la cueillette des fraises”strawberry picking in Sonoma done mostly by Hmong farmers.This past week the NYTs article, “Hiring Locally for Farm Work Is No Cure-All” described how a Colorado onion and sweet corn farmer couldn’t find enough local help to work in his fields. There are well over [...]
This is another presentation from the July 2011 Agricultural Symposium sponsored by the Federal Reserve Bank of Kansas City. This one focuses upon agribusiness risk in California and was presented by Curt Covington, Bank of the West. California is the single most important agricultural state in this nation, and so I’m using a few statistics [...]
