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KPBS Midday EditionRev. Dr. Christopher Carter joined Midday Edition to talk about his new book 'The Spirit of Soul Food: Race, Faith And Food'. -
California port officials say shipping costs are so high now that many ships hurry back to Asia instead of stopping at the smaller Oakland port to pick up exports of walnuts and almonds. -
KPBS Midday EditionThe warming climate will soon begin squeezing worker's pocketbooks as intense heat begins limiting when and how long they can work outside. -
Continued droughts are forcing the Metropolitan Water District of Southern California to ask water agencies to voluntarily conserve water. -
KPBS Midday EditionAgriculture officials have quarantined 68 square-miles of land in North County to protect citrus trees from a deadly and invasive bug that has been found on citrus trees in the area. The disease is capable of destroying fruit, and eventually killing the trees. -
It was the fourth time in the past five reports that overall agriculture values increased, and the third time since 1990 that total values topped $1.8 billion in San Diego County. Values exceeded $1.8 billion in both 2013 and 2014. -
San Diego County has a nearly $1.8 billion agriculture industry and it is facing significant risks as fire insurance becomes harder for farmers to get. Now a new law will provide farmers with backstop insurance. -
San Diego's reopening expands as progress is made on COVID-19 cases and vaccinations, an encampment for cross-border farmworkers is dismantled by police in Calexico and a look at the revolving door in Chula Vista between the city's police department and the surveillance drone industry. -
Volunteers in California are working to ensure that the thousands of farmworkers who toil in the fields every day are receiving coronavirus vaccinations. -
A farm in Encinitas provides pay-what-you-can farm stands, donates to local hunger relief organizations and educates on how to grow a closer relationship to the land.
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