Lifelong San Luis Obispo County resident Jamie Silva may have lived in Nipomo for the past almost two years, but she finds herself in Arroyo Grande and nearby Santa Barbara County when it's time to grocery shop. "When we moved here, I was pregnant," Silva said.

San Luis Obispo County Farm Bureau is proud to support our future agriculture leaders!

• Farm Bureau Women Committee offers scholarships to several deserving students of $1000 each. Applications must be postmarked or otherwise delivered to the Farm Bureau Office no later than March 31, 2022.
• Applications for the San Luis Obispo County Foundation for Agricultural Awareness must be postmarked by April 1, 2022, or received by hand delivery to the Farm Bureau office by April 8, 2022.

Judge Patricia Guerrero was confirmed to the California Supreme Court on Tuesday, becoming the first Latina to serve on the court. Following the 3-0 vote of the Commission on Judicial Appointments, Guerrero is set to be sworn in on Monday by California Gov.

While the whole country is hurting over high gas prices, in part due to the Russian invasion of Ukraine and , California drivers are hurting really bad California currently has the highest gas prices in the country hitting a statewide average of $5.44 a gallon earlier this month.

A bill making its way through the California Legislature would make it easier for landowners and hunters to kill wild pigs doing damage to agricultural lands. Yet hunting associations are lining up to fight Senate Bill 856, authored by Napa's Democratic state senator, Bill Dodd.

Voting is likely to be a bit more complicated this year, as a number of redrawn districts prompt confusion and make officials' work considerably more difficult. So what seats are up for election this year?

New political maps have upended the California Legislature this year by prodding more than two-dozen state lawmakers into early retirement or career changes, while others are forced into unfamiliar new districts ahead of the November election. Democrats still vastly outnumber Republicans in both legislative chambers.

SLO County Farm Bureau Community Board Room Rental Fees & Information

• $100.00 Room Rental Fee per half day, $150.00 for all day.Evenings may be available.
• Seating available in the following styles: Classroom for about 40 people, Stadium for 50-75 people, and various table arrangements for 25-35 people. Tables and chairs are provided.

BBQ pit and kitchen access included. Our office has high-speed internet, conference phone, and a large television display.

As record-breaking drought fuels another potentially dangerous wildfire season, the state auditor reported today that state officials are failing to hold California's electric utilities accountable for preventing fires caused by their equipment. The report to the California Legislature found that the new Office of Energy Infrastructure Safety approved utility companies' wildfire prevention plans even when they were "seriously deficient."

Insurance Commissioner Ricardo Lara approved increases in the limits of coverage to the California FAIR Plan Association's (FAIR Plan) commercial programs that are offered to businesses, no later than May 1, 2022. This action by Commissioner Lara allows those businesses unable to secure insurance coverage in the normal insurance market with access to insurance they ...

First published on Prices of oranges, tangerines and other types of citrus jumped 6.8% in February as overall food prices continue to rise, according to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics' Consumer Price Index. Food prices climbed 1.4% last month and saw their largest 12-month increase since 1981.

This event will be in-person Join over 300 strawberry growers, researchers and industry representatives for this year's Strawberry Center Field Day. Participants rotate through stations, hearing from Cal Poly and UC Davis students and staff about the latest research taking place at the Strawberry Center.

In this installment of the 'Agronometrics In Charts' series, Sarah Ilyas studies the progress of the California avocado season. Each week the series looks at a different horticultural commodity, focusing on a specific origin or topic visualizing the market factors that are driving change. California meets about 10% of the nation's annual avocado consumption.

Mexico City, March 23 (Latest).- The expectation of exporting avocado from the state of Jalisco (western Mexico) to the United States "represents a great opportunity to strengthen Mexico as the main supplier of the best fruit to the world," said this Wednesday or the head of the Secretary of Agriculture and Rural Development (Sader) of Mexico, Víctor Manuel Villalobos.

California now has a super-majority of Democrats in the state Legislature and Governor, and many working in agriculture in the state are growing concerned over the general perception that synthetic pesticides are inherently bad.

California has allocated $10 million to begin the development of a statewide system the provides information to the public about pesticides used around them. DPR is ...

Share with friends California leads the nation in agricultural production. It's no exaggeration to say this state feeds the world out of its fertile Central Valley. But that rich land has become a battlefield. California is the nation's No. 1 state in agriculture commodity sales, with its share nearly double that of no.

From the Ground Up: Healing Our Planet, Healing Ourselves explores how stewarded rangelands restore ecosystems and communities. Produced by California Rangeland Trust, this new short film features a rancher conservationist who sponsors a PTSD recovery program for veterans on his land, as well as a rancher who recently conserved her family ranch. ...

Riboli Family Wines has announced the acquisition of a 160- acre vineyard property in the Willow Creek District of the Paso Robles AVA. The parcel includes 80 acres of vines planted to cabernet sauvignon and syrah varietals.

A Paso Robles winery seeks a court order to make sure it can use the "Hawks Hill" brand to sell wine without infringing on the trademarked name of a Sonoma County vineyard, according to the federal lawsuit, Wine...

A new study provides guidelines for using biomarkers to identify ‘smoke taint’ in grapes and wines - As wildfire season in the West grows in length and severity, it is taking a toll on the wine industry through the effects of wildfire smoke on the ...

New Times SLO - March 24, 2022

For those who follow it, the saga of state water on the Central Coast is a frustrating one. When the State Water Project was first built in the 1960s, the San Luis Obispo County Flood Control District purchased rights to 25,000 acre-feet of water per year, an amount that could serve about 125,000 households.

 Decades later though, in the 1990s, when it came time to develop the Coastal Branch infrastructure to pump state water from the Central Valley to the Central Coast, SLO County only paid for 4,830 acre-feet per year of delivery capacity, less than 20 percent of what it has the rights for.

"When it was time for people to say whether they were in or out [of the Coastal Branch], there was a lot of opposition to state water for growth reasons," said Kate Ballantyne, the current deputy director of SLO County Public Works. "So they [SLO County] only invested in the infrastructure we knew people were willing to pay for." ...

As California farmers and ranchers face another year of drought and cutbacks in water deliveries, a page out of history served as a reminder that the state's water problems remain urgent-and that their voices are needed more than ever to press for legislative action. ...

When it comes to cybersecurity, a recent report by the California Legislative Analyst’s Office found the agriculture and water sectors have a long way to go...

U.S. agriculture exports to Mexico reached record highs in 2021 in several categories. A recent report from the U.S. Department of Agriculture ( USDA) indicates that the value of agricultural products exported to Mexico increased by 42 percent. ...

The cost of growing crops could outpace revenue for many farmers in 2022, making it more difficult to break even despite rising commodity prices and increased demand both domestically and globally. The American Farm Bureau Federation is launching a series of Market Intel articles examining rising farm production expenses.

On average, U.S. farmers received 16.0 cents for farm commodity sales from each consumer dollar spent on domestically produced food in 2020, up from a revised 15.0 cents in 2019. Known as the farm share , the one-cent rise is the largest increase in nearly a decade.

The marketing share, on the other hand, goes to food-supply-chain industries that move domestically produced food from farms to points of purchase, including costs related to packaging, transporting, processing, and selling to consumers at grocery stores and eating-out places. In the first year of the Coronavirus (COVID-19) pandemic, households redirected a substantial amount of their eating-out dollars, or food-away-from-home (FAFH) spending, toward food-at-home (FAH) markets such as grocery stores. Generally, farmers receive a smaller share from eating-out dollars because a larger portion is spent on preparing and serving meals at restaurants, cafeterias, and other food-service establishments. ...