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Title: Delta Fix Affordability San Diego Farm View Eric Larson Executive Director San Diego County Farm Bureau


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Delta Fix AffordabilitySan Diego Farm ViewEric
LarsonExecutive DirectorSan Diego County Farm
Bureau
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National Rankings
  • 16 farm economy among all counties
  • 1 in nursery production
  • 1 in avocado production
  • 1 in number of small farms
  • 1 in number of organic farms
  • 1 in farmers with off-farm income

3
San Diegos Top Crops
  • Ornamental Trees and Shrubs
  • Indoor Plants
  • Bedding Plants
  • Avocados
  • Tomatoes
  • Eggs
  • Lemons
  • Cacti Succulents
  • Herbaceous Perennials
  • Cut Flowers Foliage

4
The Crop Profile
Fruit 21
Vegetables 9
Livestock Poultry 4
Nursery Floral 65
Other lt1
5
What Farming Means to the Community
  • Economic
  • Sales and inputs
  • Jobs
  • Environmental
  • Air quality
  • Fire suppression
  • Open space
  • Wildlife corridors
  • Community Character
  • History
  • Local products
  • Ambiance

6
What Farming Means to Water Sales
  • Regional value as customers
  • Easy to serve volume buyer
  • Source of fixed fees
  • Interruptible customer
  • Potential for large volume recycled water use

7
From 2001 to 2011 in San Diego County
  • Irrigated acreage down 16
  • 61,000 to 51,000
  • Crop value up 30
  • 1.3 billion to 1.7 billion
  • Ags imported water use down 60
  • 100,000 af to 40,000af
  • Water price increased 190
  • 450/af to 1300/af

8
Adjustments Made by Farmers
  • Investment in conservation
  • Reduction in planted acres
  • Crop changes
  • Increased production per acre
  • More groundwater use
  • Capture and reuse of irrigation water

9
Farm Water Challenges
  • Efficiency has limits
  • Crops need a level of irrigation or production
    falls off precipitously
  • Poor water quality requires more irrigation
  • Price of inputs has no relationship to crop sale
    price
  • Every crop grown here is easily replaced by
    production someplace else

10
Impacts of Rising Water Prices
  • Significant reduction in water sales
  • Tree fruit acreage taken out of production
  • Other crops now at risk
  • Reluctance to make new investments

11
Imported Water Price Sensitivity
  • 1 Citrus
  • 2 Avocados
  • 3 Strawberries
  • 4 Vegetables
  • 5 Cut Flowers
  • 6 Nursery

12
What Farmers Must Do to Afford the Delta Fix
  • Seek differential pricing
  • Invest in research
  • Take full advantage of technology
  • Change production practices
  • Casual farmers must go all-in
  • Consider alternate crops
  • Diversify
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