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.

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

To access the booklet, click here.

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 [email protected].