Crop values up in Sutter County
Top three crops in 2018 were rice, walnuts, peaches
Thousands lined the streets surrounding the Sikh Temple to witness the 40th Nagar Kirtan take place in Yuba City, when the Sikh holy scripture the Guru Granth Sahib is carried on a float while Sikh hymns are sung.
While the float carrying the scripture leads the procession, dozens of other floats from Sikh organizations and other groups made their way around the approximately four-mile parade loop.
Sunday, 8:35 a.m.
The parking lot at River Valley High School was already filling up as people began to line up around the school’s front lawn awaiting green Yuba-sutter Transit shuttles to arrive and take them the three miles to the temple.
8:45 a.m.
After dropping off attendees at the temple, four shuttles pulled in
Crop values increased 3.7 percent in 2018 compared to the year prior, with Sutter County experiencing its second-best year on record in terms of gross production value.
The Sutter County Agricultural Commissioner’s Office released figures for 2018 this week in its annual crop report. Overall values were $605,399,000 last year, up from $583,996,000 in 2017.
“2017 saw historic weather, the front driveway of the school and people piled into the shuttles until each was full.
8:51 a.m.
Baldev Chima of Yuba City and which caused a reduction in rice and tomato acreage. 2018 rice acreage returned to average,” said Lisa Herbert, Sutter County agricultural commissioner. “…Walnuts saw a large increase in bearing acreage (7,141 acres) but there were also increases in prune (1,077 acres) and clingstone peaches (1,687 acres).”
Most people familiar with the county’s landscape could guess that rice is, once again, the top crop – having been named number one 28 times over his sister-in-law Jasmin Randhawa of Fremont stood in the middle of a crowded shuttle and braced themselves as the shuttle made its way to the temple. the last 30 years. The commodity had a total value of $171.5 million last year, which represents an increase from the year prior of $147.6 million. The increase was largely due to an additional approximately 20,000 acres harvested and slight increase in price per ton.
The second leading crop was walnuts with a total value of nearly $86 million, which was a decrease of 34.1 percent from the year prior mainly due to a drop in price of nearly of nearly $1,000.
In third were peaches with a total value of $59.8 million. The commodity rose from the county’s fifth leading crop to third largely due to increases in acres harvested, production per acre and price.
Prunes came in fourth place with a total value of $57 million. Rounding out the top five commodities were nursery products, which had a total value of $53.4 million – up 12.8 percent from the year prior.
Other notable crop values included tomatoes ($37.9 million), almonds ($33.2 million), sunflowers ($15.2 million), and alfalfa ($13 million).
“Growers faced many challenges with increases in regulatory requirements for employee safety standards and trainings,” Herbert said. “Pesticide Use