Late last month, a destructive citrus disease was detected for the first time in San Bernardino County. The quarantine area for the economically devastating citrus greening disease has been expanding in an attempt to keep it from reaching the commercial groves in the Southern San Joaquin Valley. According to the California Department of Food and […]

From EdSource The 10,000-student district is in the San Joaquin Valley—the nation’s agricultural epicenter—which stretches from Fresno to Bakersfield. The severe water shortage here has forced some farmers to reduce the acreage they plant, leaving far fewer jobs for farmworkers. Garza said some of Kings Canyon’s families—almost 90 percent of whom are poor and Hispanic—have […]