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Ag production value in Monterey County was down by 6 percent in 2023 due to winter storms.
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Ag production value in Monterey County was down by 6 percent in 2023 due to winter storms.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jul 16, 2024

For the second year in a row, winter storms and flooding impacted the local agriculture industry, Monterey County’s largest. 

Monterey County’s ag industry increased sales to $4.6 billion in 2022.
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Monterey County’s ag industry increased sales to $4.6 billion in 2022.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jul 27, 2023

Much discussion this year about the state of the agriculture industry in Monterey County has been about how productivity suffered from winter …

The county crop report shows organic farming is plummeting. In reality, not quite so much.
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The county crop report shows organic farming is plummeting. In reality, not quite so much.

  • David Schmalz
  • Jul 28, 2022

Monterey County’s annual crop report, which was released to the public July 12, presented what was seemingly an alarming development: Organic …

Monterey County agriculture grew in value by 5 percent last year, a partial rebound.
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Monterey County agriculture grew in value by 5 percent last year, a partial rebound.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jul 14, 2022

Different shades of green are grown in Monterey County fields. In the county’s biggest industry there is variety: more than 30 kinds of crops …

Monterey County’s agriculture industry faced a $500 million decrease in revenue in 2020.
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Monterey County’s agriculture industry faced a $500 million decrease in revenue in 2020.

  • Celia Jiménez
  • Jul 21, 2021

The year of Covid was a challenge for everyone, including the agriculture industry. Growers and ranchers faced issues beyond the normal challe…

Cannabis data will be tacked on to 2019 Crop Report for the first time.
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Cannabis data will be tacked on to 2019 Crop Report for the first time.

  • Pam Marino
  • Sep 14, 2019

Every June, the Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner releases the Crop Report, the definitive annual snapshot of the status of the county…

Tainted romaine likely from Central Coast; growers agree to voluntary labeling.
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Tainted romaine likely from Central Coast; growers agree to voluntary labeling.

  • Pam Marino
  • Nov 29, 2018

Somewhere along the Central Coast in October, enough E.coli O57:H7 lay hidden among fields of romaine lettuce to result in more than 40 people…

Lettuce dominated 2016 in Monterey County. The question is, when does cannabis make the list?
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Lettuce dominated 2016 in Monterey County. The question is, when does cannabis make the list?

  • Pam Marino
  • Jun 27, 2017

When Monterey County’s annual crop report for 2016 was released June 27, lettuce held the number-one spot for the highest-value crop. But anot…

Monterey County Crop Values Exceed $4 Billion
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Monterey County Crop Values Exceed $4 Billion

  • Sara Rubin
  • Updated Jun 21, 2013

Monterey County vintners should all raise a glass to the good news: For the first time in two years, a downward trend on wine grape values has…

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