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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 ...
Fresno, Tulare and Kings counties each posted new records for the value of their agricultural production in 2022. And for the second consecutive year, Tulare County farmers and ranchers ...
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 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 ...
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.
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.
Some Bee colleagues and I recently took a tour of Westlands Water District — the nation’s largest agricultural water district, located on the western edges of Fresno and Kings counties.. The ...
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.