Western Growers and the California Women for Agriculture Coachella Valley Chapter Host Student Ag Careers Tour
Eighty Coachella Valley High School and Indio High School students participated in an agricultural career tour on March 28 thanks to Western Growers and the CWA Coachella Valley Chapter. Peter Rabbit Farms, Prime Time, Olson Engineering and West Coast Turf gave the students a hands-on look at the diversity of careers available in the ag industry via tour buses that took them to a farm equipment shop and carrot and turf grass fields. As part of the “Spring AgVenture Farm Tour” the students then met
with farmers, ag engineers, mechanics, fabricators, accountants, sales and tech support professionals. “This was a special day,” said Indio High School ag instructor Mamie Powell. “It really helped my students see what their futures can look like.” The tour followed the March 27 Next Gen Ag X Ed event that occurred at College of the Desert’s Indio Campus. -Ann Donahue Insights include: • Lost farms and acres between 1997 and 2022 • Declining profit margins for California farmers over the past decade (in contrast to growing profit margins for the rest of the country) • Rising production costs between 1998 and 2023 • Increasing California-specific regulatory costs between 2006 and 2024 • And more
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New Resource Highlights Alarming Trends for California Agriculture Despite being the dominant agricultural force in the U.S., California’s oppressive legislative and regulatory environment is driving food production out of the state. Western Growers has compiled key data points into a handy booklet demonstrating the steady erosion of California’s farming economy due to the cumulative financial impacts of the state’s public policy climate.
If you are an agricultural stakeholder, we encourage you to share this resource with colleagues, elected representatives and regulatory officials to help raise awareness of the troubling trends facing California agriculture. For more information, please contact Cory Lunde, VP, External Affairs, at clunde@wga.com. -Michelle Rivera
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