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The Salinas Valley, located within Monterey County, is one of the most productive agricultural regions in California. Monterey County grows over 50% of the national production for leaf lettuce, head lettuce, and celery. It also produces significant percentages of the country's broccoli, spinach, cauliflower, and strawberries. [187]
It started on December 11, 2011, and ended on March 5, 2019. The most intense period captured on the drought monitor was on the week of July 29, 2014. It showed that 58.41% of California's land was affected by a drought. In 2014–2015, farm-related losses in California totaled $5 billion and 20,000 farmers also lost their jobs. [citation needed]
An agricultural irrigation system near Chualar in the Salinas Valley. Supplying Salinas Valley farms is an underground water supply fed, in part, by the large watershed in surrounding mountains. Two reservoirs – Nacimiento and San Antonio —store and release the water for groundwater recharge , flood control and farming.
The gross value of Fresno County’s crop and livestock production reached almost $8.1 billion in 2022. One of California’s most fertile counties has a new most valuable crop. Here’s what it is
Three Central Coast spots landed on the list of the California counties that saw the biggest population bumps, the U.S. Census Bureau says. SLO ranks among the top 10 fastest growing counties in ...
An 1873 map shows Tulare Lake prior to shrinkage from large-scale agriculture.. The San Joaquin Valley is the southern half of California's Central Valley. [4] It extends from the Sacramento–San Joaquin River Delta in the north to the Tehachapi Mountains in the south, and from the California coastal ranges (Diablo and Temblor) in the west to the Sierra Nevada in the east.
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 ...
Northern California also contains redwood forests, along with most of the Sierra Nevada, including Yosemite Valley and part of Lake Tahoe, Mount Shasta (the second-highest peak in the Cascade Range after Mount Rainier in Washington), and most of the Central Valley, one of the world's most productive agricultural regions. Northern California is ...