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The gross value of Fresno County’s crop and livestock production reached almost $8.1 billion in 2022. In a record year for Fresno County agriculture, there’s a new crop in the top spot Skip to ...
The plan stresses that protecting agriculture remains a priority of county officials, and well it should be: Fresno County is one of the top farming regions in the nation, with growers earning ...
There is the Tranquillity project, spanning 3,500 acres on Fresno County’s west side and generating 400 megawatts. That much can power almost 300,000 homes. Not far away is the Scarlet Solar ...
The top four counties in agricultural sales (2007 data) in the U.S. are in California's Central Valley: Fresno ($3.731 billion), Tulare ($3.335 billion), Kern ($3.204 billion), and Merced ($2.330 billion). [180] [181] Its agricultural productivity relies on irrigation both from surface water diversions and from groundwater pumping (wells).
However, in 2001, Fresno earned a grade of poor for water quality and compliance from the Natural Resources Defense Council, an environmental advocacy group. [8] Groundwater in Fresno is unconfined and is susceptible to contamination from agriculture, runoff, and seeping contaminants.
Fresno County (/ ˈ f r ɛ z n oʊ / ⓘ), officially the County of Fresno, is a county located in the central portion of the U.S. state of California. As of the 2020 Census, the population was 1,008,654. [3] [5] The county seat is Fresno, [6] the fifth-most populous city in California.
It is the largest agricultural water district in the United States by irrigable acres and provides water primarily to farms in an area of approximately 614,000 acres (2,400 km 2) in Fresno County and Kings County in the San Joaquin Valley of central California. Its headquarters are in Fresno.
Unfortunately, it isn’t really a matter of whether the Fresno County Board of Supervisors will give its collective blessing to rezone the 7,000-acre Harris River Ranch from agriculture to ...