State Farm Jobs Holding Their Own

When you think of 2009 you think of; recession, job loss, poverty, war, water shortage, or job loss. But when you look at the numbers for Agriculture, many of these issues seem to be worse than they really are.
For example, Fresno County, California’s top-producing agricultural county posted that farm jobs actually increased from 2008 to 2009, although over the state’s records only dropped by a half percent. The labor and crop statistics of 2009 didn’t exactly point towards that though. Farm employment from 2006 forward show that jobs have increased overall and only recently from 08’ and 09’ has the increase lowered minimally. Notice I said “increase has lowered”. The job market is still slowly increasing.
Growers of rice and processing tomatoes successed quite a year in 2009 and while grape production lowered slightly, it was still among one of their best years. Almond tree growers also profited well by holding more bearing acres than ever.
With inaccurate figures and the surge on the issue with politicians, the state of California greatly over shot the disaster predictions and hopefully 2010 will be only positive for the growers of CA.
To read more,please go to http://articles.latimes.com/2010/feb/22/local/la-me-water-jobs22-2010feb22