NORTH COUNTY -- Farmers across North County and their water suppliers said Monday they are beginning to prepare for water cutbacks this coming winter, in what one water official said could be the beginning of a "long-term shift" in North County's water resources. NORTH COUNTY -- Farmers across North County and their water suppliers said Monday they are beginning to prepare for water cutbacks this coming winter, in what one water official said could be the beginning of a "long-term shift"...

The union, via Senate Bill 180, wants the right to submit signed cards asking for union representation, and if a majority of eligible workers signs those cards, wants the union recognized without a formal election. By Tom Elias Many baby boomers who marched with Cesar Chavez and boycotted table grapes during their college years in an effort to help the labor leader establish the United Farm Workers Union were stunned by recent newspaper headlines blaring that "Farmworker Union Fights...

It s been growing, Delbusso said of the market On Sunday, the open-air venue featured a mix of farmers, local artisans, antique and flea market dealers and food vendors. He said it s his second year at the market and noted with approval the absence of karaoke. He was one of more than a dozen vendors selling items ranging from barn stars, old books, breads and jams to crocheted blankets, plants and framed photographs. Stanton Gill, owner of a 47-acre fruit farm in Westminster, sold fresh...

Charles King built a virtual empire in the thousands of acres he farmed around the settlement that eventually became a city bearing his name. In 1922, growers figured out the rudiments of shipping fresh produce long distances by rail, and the Salad Bowl of the World was born. Vacuum-cooled lettuce was lighter, easier to pack and permitted growers to pack produce in corrugated containers in the field. They grew tons of sugar beets for Claus Spreckels' big sugar operation and successfully...

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At Essington Fruit Farm near Wolverhampton, strawberry crops appeared earlier than usual due to premature heatwaves but the current downpours are putting people off picking them. Superb for strawberries, poor for potatoes and fluctuating for flowers the balmy weather conditions at the start of summer are reaping random success for growers and gardeners alike. It is almost a carbon copy of 1982 when there was blazing sunshine for four or five days at the start of the strawberry season,...