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W~IER.EAS, California leads all other states in the value of faran
products--$3, 5 billion a year,
DIRECTLY, or indirectly, farming in California is responsible
for one out of every three jobs in the state.
FAR1zI1~G absorbs the services of 312, 900 workers, ~a~ith a total
of 406, 300 at the peak of harvest.
For every 100 employed in agriculture, another 2G3 are employed
in such industries as canning, preserving, packaging, transporting, storing,
and selling,
Food and kindred product processor pay nearly $800 million in
wages to over 135, 000 farm workers every year, and
~T~IEREAS, farm inchzstri.es create jobs:
The steel industry sells 600, 000 tons of tin plate for metal con-
tainers to California canners.
Glass manufacturers annually sell 1_, 3 billion jars worth $54
million to California food processors.
The plastics industry supplies nearly 30 million pounds of
plastic film for California agricultur. e,
Pape-r products manufacturers sell 400 anillion fiber boxes to
California food handlers, About 40 million wooden containers worth over
$15 million are used to pack California produce,
Printers provide one million miles of printed labels to canners
and packers in the state annually.
year, and
Food advertising in California amounts to over $l25 million a
WHEREAS, farmers are lai.g consumers:
California farmers buy about $2, 2 billion in goods and services
each year. Include d are:
5100 million for petroleum products
$500 million for hired labor
5100 million for machine hire
5500 zrtillion for transportation (agriculture accounts for 1/3
of all rail tonnage in California and 1/2 of all truck transport)
California farmers operate 160, 000 tractors, 131, 000 motor
trucl~s, 127, OOU automobiles, and 26, O.UO pieces of other motorized equipment.
They spent, in 1963, 5200 million fox farm equipment, machinery
and parts, and $22 million for repairs,
They spent 5529 million for feed and $100 million for fertilizer
in one year.
California lending institutions provided California farmers with
5734 million in loans recently, This included 5560 million in production loans
and 5174 million in farm mortgages,
More than 97°~0 of California's 200 crops receive no federal sub-
sidies. Payments amount to less than l.% of the 53 0 5 billion cash income,
With less than 3°Jo of the nation's far. ms, California supplies 25°0
of the nation's table food.
More than 200 crops are grown commercially in California--more
than any other state---and this state ranks first in the nation in 43 of them,
second in 9, and thin. d in 12.
Cattle and calves rank first in value at 5572 million in 1963,
Dairying is secoizd at 5388 mil-lion. Cotton is third at 5334 million, and
WHEREAS, California grows:
43°0 of the nation's vegetables,
42% of the nation's fruit and nut crops.
California produces more than 90 %o of the U. S. commerical
production of the folio~ving variety of crops: almonds.; apricots, artichokes,
brussel sprouts, p7.ums, Ladino clover, dates, figs, garlic, grapes, lvalnuts,
lemons, nectarines, olives, persimmons, pomegranates.
NOZ~T, THEREFORE, SI, IT RESOT_,VED that this Soa.rcl of
Supervisors of~,~ ,~ County does hereby set aside the
week of 1`Tovembe-r 1 24, 1966 as Farm.-City WEek,
ADOPTED SY THE SUITE COUNTY BOARA EF SUPERVISORS ON NOVEMBER 15, 1966.
ATTEST: JESSIE ROGERS, COUNTY CLERK
By:
Deputy C It