{"id":2548,"date":"2021-08-25T22:06:00","date_gmt":"2021-08-25T22:06:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/maderatribustg.wpenginepowered.com\/?p=2548"},"modified":"2026-05-13T18:22:41","modified_gmt":"2026-05-13T18:22:41","slug":"county-ag-department-releases-annual-report","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/county-ag-department-releases-annual-report\/","title":{"rendered":"County ag department releases annual report"},"content":{"rendered":"<div data-elementor-type=\"wp-post\" data-elementor-id=\"2548\" class=\"elementor elementor-2548\" data-elementor-post-type=\"post\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-147c8424 e-flex e-con-boxed e-con e-parent\" data-id=\"147c8424\" data-element_type=\"container\" data-e-type=\"container\">\n\t\t\t\t\t<div class=\"e-con-inner\">\n\t\t\t\t<div class=\"elementor-element elementor-element-16462950 elementor-widget elementor-widget-text-editor\" data-id=\"16462950\" data-element_type=\"widget\" data-e-type=\"widget\" data-widget_type=\"text-editor.default\">\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<p>Madera County Agricultural Commissioner Rusty Lantsberger released the county\u2019s annual crop report last week and it indicated a drop in production.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>According to the report, the gross value of all production was $1,949,532,000, a decrease of $52 million or 3.6 percent as compared to the 2019 crop report.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Lantsberger indicated that the decrease could be attributed to the COVID-19 pandemic, ongoing drought conditions, water deliveries, labor shortages, export markets and decreased commodity values.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>Madera County is currently ranked No. 10 of 58 counties in California. This is an improvement of one spot from last year\u2019s report.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>For the 11th year in a row, almond is the top crop in the county while milk was<\/p><p>No. 2. Pistachios continued a move to the top and ranked No. 3 while grapes fell to No. 4. Figs, which didn\u2019t appear in the top 10 last year, is seventh.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>In the state, Madera County is tops in fig production and third in raisin grape production. The county is fourth in pistachios and almond production and fifth in table tabbies. In all, the county is in the top 10 in nine commodity production.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>In addition, the county ranks 18th among all counties in the united states in ag production.<\/p><p> <\/p><p>The following are the county&#8217;s top produts, by rank, commodity and dollar value.<\/p><p> <\/p><h2>2020 million dollar crops<\/h2><p> <\/p><p>No. 1: Almonds, nuts and hulls \u2014 $689,402,000<\/p><p>No. 2: Milk \u2014 $317,874,000<\/p><p>No. 3: Pistachios \u2014 $285,409,000<\/p><p>No. 4: Grapes \u2014 $221,032,000<\/p><p>No. 5: Pollination \u2014 $65,190,000<\/p><p>No. 6: Cattle and calves \u2014 $41,443,000<\/p><p>No. 7: Figs \u2014 $31,115,000<\/p><p>No. 8: Replacement heifers \u2014 $30,096,000<\/p><p>No. 9: Nursery stock \u2014 $27,874,000<\/p><p>No. 10: Corn silage \u2014 $24,198,000<\/p><p>No. 11: Poultry \u2014 $21,373,000<\/p><p>No. 12: Tomatoes \u2014 19,394,000<\/p><p>No. 13: Oranges \u2014 $16,637,000<\/p><p>No. 14: Wheat \u2014 $15,623,000<\/p><p>No. 15: Alfalfa \u2014 $14,251,000<\/p><p>No. 16: Rangeland \u2014 $9,675,000<\/p><p>No. 17: Walnuts \u2014 $7,789,000<\/p><p>No. 18: Peaches \u2014 $6,021,000<\/p><p>No. 19: Plums, dried \u2014 $5,847,000<\/p><p>No. 20: Cherries \u2014 $4,994,000<\/p><p>No. 21: Honey \u2014 $1,753,000<\/p><p>No. 21: Olives, fresh and oil \u2014 $1,411,000<\/p><p>No. 22: Oat hay \u2014 $1,153,000<\/p>\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Madera County Agricultural Commissioner Rusty Lantsberger released the county\u2019s annual crop report last week and it indicated a drop in production. According to the report, the gross value of all production was $1,949,532,000, a decrease of $52 million or 3.6 percent as compared to the 2019 crop report. Lantsberger indicated that the decrease could be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":13,"featured_media":40981,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"elementor_theme","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"_angie_page":false,"page_builder":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[19],"tags":[25,37],"class_list":["post-2548","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-agriculture","tag-finance"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/13"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2548"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2548\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/40981"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2548"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2548"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/maderatribune.com\/es\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2548"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}