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File #: 25-643    Version: 1 Name: 2024 Crop and Livestock Report
Type: Presentation Status: Regular Calendar
In control: Ag Commissioner/Sealer of Weights and Measures
On agenda: 8/5/2025 Final action: 8/5/2025
Title: Receive the 2024 Solano County Crop and Livestock Report from the Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights and Measures
District: All
Attachments: 1. A - Link to the 2024 Crop and Livestock Report, 2. B - PowerPoint Presentation
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Receive the 2024 Solano County Crop and Livestock Report from the Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights and Measures

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Published Notice Required? Yes ____ No __X_
Public Hearing Required? Yes ____ No __X_

DEPARTMENTAL RECOMMENDATION:

The Agricultural Commissioner/Sealer of Weights and Measures recommends the Board of Supervisors receive a presentation on the 2024 Solano County Crop and Livestock Report.

SUMMARY:

Each year the Agricultural Commissioner submits the annual Solano County Crop and Livestock Report to the Board of Supervisors and the California Department of Food and Agriculture. Compilation of the annual report is a mandated duty of the County Agricultural Commissioner, pursuant to California Food and Agricultural Code ?? 2272 and 2279.

FINANCIAL IMPACT:

The costs associated with preparing the agenda item are nominal and absorbed by the Department's FY2025/26 Working Budget.

DISCUSSION:

The Crop and Livestock Report compiles agricultural production data and gross values received by farmers and ranchers for their products. Solano County's 2024 agricultural production value is calculated at $437,938,000, a 5% decrease from 2023. Despite this downturn, the 2024 production value is the second highest value on record.

Almonds regained the top crop position in 2024 at a total value of $78,351,000, up $34.5 million from 2023, with prices rising above $4,000 per ton for the first time in five years. Although growers produced California's third largest almond crop in 2024, it was short of projections resulting in tightened supplies, continued strong demand and increased prices. After processing tomatoes yielded the county's first $100 million crop in 2023, supply inventories rebounded and contract prices fell accordingly in 2024, dropping the year's value to $55,803,000 but still remaining the second highest value tomato crop on record. Cattle and calves totaled $48,861,000, increasing $8.4 million above 2023,...

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