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Coachella Valley Agriculture
Jose Luis Aguiar, Farm Advisor, UCCE Riverside County November 4, 2015
SLIDE 2 Riverside County 2014
TOTAL VALUATION: F.O.B.
$170,891,000
$223,593,000
$337,404,000
$156,575,000
$172,910,000
$ 4,819,000
$ 5,078,000
$290,746,000 TOTAL VALUATION: $1,362,016,000
*ALL VEGETABLES
SLIDE 3 2014 Agricultural Districts Valuations in Riverside County
$ 96,205,000
- San Jacinto/Temecula Valley
$175,767,000
$625,62,000
$171,013,000
Total: $1,058,435,000
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Grapefruit, Lemons, Oranges-Valencia, Royal Mandarins,Tangelos, Tangerines, Kumquats, Limes, Oranges-Blood
2014 Coachella Valley Acreage and Agricultural Crop Report
Citrus: 8,321 Acres Gross Value $117,644,000 Grapefruit Harvest: December to June
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Grapes: 8,586 acres Gross Value: $164,032,000 Beauty-Seedless, Exotic, Flame Seedless, Perlette, Thompson Seedless
Grape Harvest: May to June
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Dates: 8,465 Acres Gross Value: $36,031,000
Medjool, Deglect Nor, Includes by-products
Date Harvest: August to November
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All Vegetables: 27,918 Acres Gross Value: $282,139,000
2014 Coachella Valley Acreage and Agricultural Crop Report
SLIDE 9 2014 Coachella Valley Vegetables Gross valuation
$75,497,000
$15,120,000
$ 19,386,000
$26,258,000
$23,170,000
$ 8,850,000
$10,382,000
$ 8,100,000
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Agricultural areas are becoming urbanized, productive soils are growing houses. Agriculture should be seen as a strategic asset of the nation.
SLIDE 11 Deposits of sand, loams and clays are found throughout the valley
Increasing the agricultural acreage will require soil reclamation. Soil profiles are extremely stratified with layers from less than inch to a foot or more thick, in the lower areas of the valley the soils can be high in soluble salts
SLIDE 12 Climate
- Long, extremely hot summers, mild
winters, and relatively low humidity
- Annual recorded rainfall of 3.16 inches
- Temperatures of more than 125F (52C)
and lows of 16F (-9C)
- Seasonal strong winds during April, May
and October with gusting blowing sand
Climate limits what and when we can grow crops
SLIDE 13 Two Main Vegetable Farming Periods
- Spring Season
- Fall Season
And the seasons overlap
SLIDE 14 Cooperative Extension
citizens and UC research
specialists
- ~200 CE advisors
- Statewide network of local
- ffices
SLIDE 15 Information on UCCE Riverside Programs
http://ceriverside.ucanr.edu
- http://ucanr.edu/sites/Farm_Management/
- http://ceriverside.ucanr.edu/Vegetable_Crop
s/
- http://ceriverside.ucanr.edu/Custom_Progra
m/Topics_in_Subtropics/
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Information on Agricultural Exports
UC AGRICULTURAL ISSUES CENTER Information on California’s Agricultural Exports http://aic.ucdavis.edu/pub/exports.html Agricultural and Resource Economics, UC Davis Current Cost Studies http://coststudies.ucdavis.edu/en/current/ and http://ceriverside.ucanr.edu
Information on Cost Studies
