Saturday 18 February 2012

Yolo County crops rise 16% in value - Silicon Valley / San Jose Business Journal:

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Together, the crops were valued at $527.w million, with the tomatoes makin g up $105.1 million of that, a 5 percentg increase despite a decreasein acreage. Agricultura l commissioner Rick Landon attributed the increase to pricedand yield. The No. 2 crop, alfalfa hay, increased 41 percent to $73.4 attributed to a 34 percent increasein price. Rice came in at No. 3, valuex at $57.8 million. Wine grapes were fourtu at $42 million and seed crops were fifthat $35.21 million.
“These production figures only partiallty reflect the overall measure of the economidc impact agriculture has onYolo county’s Landon said in a news “Field labor, processing, transporting, marketing and other farm-relateds services significantly multiply the valuse agriculture has to our county. When the multiplier effect of related industries is agriculture contributes wellover $1.
5 billion to the economy of Yolo

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