Recommended Citation
Winter January 1, 2025, pages 1-32.
Abstract
Rising costs of regulation are an increasing concern for California growers. An initial study of regulatory costs in California agriculture was conducted in 2006, as means to compare California’s regulatory environment to other competing states. Industry groups in the Salinas Valley contacted Cal Poly to update the original study in 2018 as new state and federal laws imposed significantly higher regulatory burdens on growers, specifically with respect to food safety, water quality, labor wages, air quality and worker health and safety. This report updates the previous case study to reflect the 2024 regulatory environment for California growers, and provides a snapshot of regulatory and production cost increases across three different decades on one large Salinas Valley lettuce operation.
Disciplines
Agribusiness
Copyright
Copyright 2025 by Hamilton and McCullough. All rights reserved. Readers may make verbatim copies of this document for non-commercial purposes by any means, provided that this copyright notice appears on all such copies
Number of Pages
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