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California egg production keeps dropping -April 26,2024-USDA reports in February said California’s egg production during January totaled 185 million, down 43 million from December’s production and down 100 million from January 2023. The big drop is in the number of layers in January 2024 that totaled 7.78 million, down 18 percent from last month, and

Don’t call it sour grapes but an April Allied Grapes Growers forum suggested the California wine industry needs to pull up to 50,000 acres to right-size plantings with demand. “The California wine industry continues to be structurallyoversupplied (too many acres), but unusually weak wine shipmentperformance since 2022 has magnified our issue.• We are not “over-planting”;

More than 1 in 5 cars sold globally this year will be electric The US Energy Information Agency (EIA) reported this week that gasoline demand slumped to 8.4 million barrels a day in the week ending April 19,2024 – down from 8.6 million barrels the week before and down more than 10% from the same

-April 18,2024- From Sequoia Park to the old Tulare Lake bed, local authorities recount the same story. A deluge of biblical proportions including heavy rain and storm runoff in the past year in our basin has caused hundreds of millions of dollars in damage to the region’s road and bridge infrastructure. A series of atmospheric

-April 18,2024- The world’s largest ice cream maker – Unilever has just announced they would spin off their ice cream business, creating a separate entity who will retain famous brands like Ben & Jerry’s, Popsicle and Breyers. So here’s the scoop! Now that new entity has made a deal in Tulare to store and distribute