Items Tagged with 'Monterey County Farm Bureau'

Industry groups had raised alarms for years over the potential economic fallout for small growers and rural communities from the controversial regulation known Ag Order 4.0.

California farmers grow the vast majority of lettuce for the country, though in recent years the number of acres planted has declined and the salad staple has dropped from consistently the number 2 crop in California (by value) at the start of the century to number 5 in 2018 and 2019.

Farmers worry that a regulation requiring vegetative buffers along waterways could create habitat for invasive pests as well as fuel for wildfires.

A costly new regulation has farmers worried year-round production on the Central Coast will be reduced to just one season.