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The increasing suburbanization of Placer County’s once-thriving farmlands was largely responsible for the glaring decrease in agriculture production in the county last year.
Such was the opinion this week of ag officials and farming observers
after being informed that agricultural crop production in the county in
2006 amounted to $64.3 million, a drop of some $9.5 million from the
total recorded in 2005.
The biggest decrease was in livestock and poultry production, whose
value in 2006 was $13.1 million, a decrease of $7.2 million from the
2005 figure. Livestock and poultry products, a separate category, had a
value of $3 million last year, a $600,000 increase over 2005. Field
crops also sustained losses; they were worth $17.1 million last year
and $14.6 million in 2005.
Fruit and nut crops held their own last year at $7.4 million, slightly
less than in 2005. Vegetable crops were valued at $401,000 last year,
down about $90,000 from 2005. Nursery products had a value of $3.6
million in 2006, about $300,000 shy of the 2005 mark. Apiary products
zoomed last year, with a gross value of $507,550, a jump of nearly
$400,000 over 2005.
The county’s gross timber harvest had a value of $11.5 million in 2006, about the same as in 2005.
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