- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
The shut downs and self isolation sweeping across the country to curb the spread of coronavirus likely will not impact agricultural staple foods, but high-end wines and specialty ag products grown in California may suffer, reported Tim Hearden in Western Farm Press.
Hearden interviewed Dan Sumner, director of UC Agriculture and Natural Resources' Agricultural Issues Center.
He said some California agricultural products see demand increase during tough economic times, such as less...
- Author: Jeannette E. Warnert
Gravenstein —the jewel of a once-thriving apple industry in the Sonoma County — is in danger, its supporters say, in large part because of another product from Sonoma: wine, reported Jesse McKinley in the New York Times. Director of the UC Agricultural Issues Center, Dan Sumner, explained the economics of the cropping shift in Sonoma County.
“If a Gravenstein apple could be sold for 10 times what a Red Delicious could, just as a Sonoma County grape can be sold for 10 times what a Fresno County grape is, you’d be set,” Sumner said. He said the decline of...
