Strawberries

Cal Poly San Luis Obispo’s Strawberry Center and the United State Department of Agriculture’s research agency recently received a federal grant to focus on tools to help automate strawberry farming in California.

Central Coast farmers are dealing with the fallout from last week’s winter storm. Heavy rain caused the Salinas and Pajaro rivers to spill into nearby strawberry fields.

California researchers have made a key discovery to help fight one of strawberries’ biggest threats: Fusarium wilt.

Strawberries and wine grapes remain the top two agricultural crops in both San Luis Obispo and Santa Barbara counties. And crops and cattle are still…

The latest crop statistics for San Luis Obispo County are out, and in 2018, San Luis Obispo’s agriculture industry exceeded one billion dollars in overall…

The commercial strawberry crops grown in Santa Barbara County were worth almost a half a billion dollars last year alone. That’s according to the 2016…

San Luis Obispo County’s agricultural crops were worth $915 million dollars last year. The county’s agricultural commissioner, Martin Settevendemie,…

Latino USA recently reexamined the 2016 fire in Nipomo that destroyed farmworker housing under construction. The segment aired on Latino USA, NPR's…

The Central Coast's number one cash crop is taking a hit from an environmental watchdog group for what it calls an excessive use of pesticides. The…

For many local farmers, rainfall during this critical drought was a welcome sound.In the Paso Robles area, where some of the biggest rainfall totals were…