Ventura —The Board of Supervisors, Tuesday, June 23, heard its Annual Crop and Livestock Report for 2025.
KORINNE Bell and her AG Commission Team addressed the Supervisors, and Bell said the theme this year is making sense out of agricultural production.
“For years, we have been talking about this gross revenue number, but that’s only half the story,” she said. “We haven't been talking about what it costs to farm and grow in Ventura County.”
The idea was born about eight years ago, and she said the Strawberry Commission published a graphic showing where the dollar goes.
“At the time, about four cents was going towards the grower,” she said. “When we looked into where the study came from, it was a study by UC (University of California) Davis, and our own Cooperative Extension was responsible for providing the local information.”
She asked if they could do it for vegetables for comparison purposes, and after years and years of that Community saying, we’re only talking about revenue; we’re not talking about costs, they decided to do the study themselves.
“We took UC Davis’s methodology, used our local information and plugged it in, and that’s how we came up with this analysis,” she said. “This is not…
