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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 five-member elected Fresno County Board of Supervisors (BOS) is the county legislature. The board operates in a legislative, executive, and quasi-judicial capacity. As a legislative authority, it can pass ordinances for the unincorporated areas (ordinances that affect the whole county, like posting of restaurant ratings, must be ratified by the individual city).
The Agricultural Labor Relations Board (ALRB) is an agency of the California state government that administers the California Agricultural Labor Relations Act, which establishes collective bargaining for farmworkers in the state. [1]
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.
On Thursday, the Fresno Economic Opportunities Commission announced the start of its guaranteed basic income program, Advancing Fresno County Guaranteed Income, which will give 150 qualifying ...
This week, as the Central Valley’s second-ever guaranteed basic income pilot (former Stockton Mayor Michael Tubbs jump-started the movement there in 2019) distributes its first payments to 150 ...
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).
The Fresno Bee was a major news source for Fresno from its very first edition. That Oct. 17, 1922 newspaper was 60 pages and delivered to 12,000 homes. Another 4,000 people bought it on the street.