The Ag Commissioner said he thinks the change and decreasing value reflects some of the challenges that Monterey County’s agricultural industry faced in 2023 with excessive rain.
Monterey County Agricultural Commissioner Juan Hidalgo released the 2023 Crop and Livestock Report at a press briefing prior to a formal presentation to the Board of Supervisors and said that “overall it’s a good crop report,” on Tuesday, July 16, 2024. SALINAS – Reflecting a production gross value of $4.35 billion, the 2023 County of Monterey Crop and Livestock Report was released Tuesday, with strawberries still the top-valued commodity in the county.
But the impact of the weather on commodities was tempered to some extent by market demand for high-value crops produced here. Jason Smith, president and CEO of Valley Farms Management, is a second-generation wine grape grower in Monterey County. He said what is unique about growing wine grapes is that it is a permanent crop harvesting once a year, as opposed to row crops which grow and are harvested in cycles.
“The fall of 2022 was marked by severe crop losses in our major acreage crop, which is lettuce, caused by the plant virus INSV, something that we were terrified about seeing a repeat of in 2023,” said Zischke.
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