Agriculture

Economy

San Diego farmland shrunk 23% in a decade. Can a new 'matchmaking' program stem the tide?

Alexander Nguyen

California Farmlink Land Access connects property owners with farmers seeking land to lease. The nonprofit is expanding to San Diego.
Environment

As temperatures rise, is California doing enough to keep its farmworkers safe?

Sarit Laschinsky and Andrew Garcia
Science & Technology

To restore soil, UCSD scientists are experimenting with probiotics for plants

Tammy Murga

At the new Soil Health Center at Scripps Institution of Oceanography, scientists are developing a probiotic that could give plants the microbes they need to grow healthier and stronger.
Environment

Bonsall farm pilots innovative way to help struggling avocado growers

Tammy Murga

Chuck Samuelson, of Kitchens for Good, has launched a program that lets you adopt a tree and get the avocados it grows.
Quality of Life

How fear of Trump’s immigration blitz is changing life in California farm towns

Nigel Duara

Tax receipts are down almost 30% in one California farm town, where immigrants are afraid to go out and some longtime workers are weighing self-deportation.
Science & Technology

Study reveals source of rain is major factor behind drought risks for farmers

City News Service

Published in Nature Sustainability, the research traces atmospheric moisture back to its source. Moisture from the ocean can travel long distances through storms and other large weather events.
Environment

State expands citrus greening quarantine to Camp Pendleton, southern Orange County

City News Service

This was San Diego's first multi-jurisdictional quarantine, spanning from southern Orange County to northern San Diego County, in the San Onofre and Agra areas, including the northwest part of Camp Pendleton.
Environment

California’s last beet sugar plant is closing. Can Imperial County keep the industry alive?

Kori Suzuki

The closure of the Spreckels Sugar factory will shutter a $243 million industry and hundreds of jobs in a county with the highest unemployment rate in the state.
Education

High school students join Salk Institute labs for summer internships

Katie Anastas

High Tech High Mesa graduate Kelly Semtner spent the summer studying how plants and fungi exchange nutrients.
Economy

California wine industry torn on Trump tariffs

Levi Sumagaysay

American wine industry stakeholders have different opinions about the potential fallout from tariffs on European wine, with California likely feeling the biggest impact.