Crops and livestock
Farm economy
The county's farms
Farm jobs
Work on the county's farms
Where the jobs are
Agriculture jobs by year
Water
A free tool for seeing what each California county grows, what its farms earn and employ, and which irrigation districts, groundwater agencies, and water agencies serve its land, built from public county crop reports, the Census of Agriculture, federal employment records, and state water maps.
California's 58 counties farm in very different ways. Tulare, Fresno, and Kern each produce more than $6 billion in crops and livestock a year. Monterey leads the state in lettuce, Napa and Sonoma in wine grapes, and Imperial grows the nation's winter vegetables in the desert.
Pick a county to see its leading crops and their value over time, its farms and farm income, the jobs agriculture supports, and the districts and agencies that deliver and manage its water. Every crop links to the Crop Explorer and every district to the District Explorer.
conciseVerbosity County Explorer. Sources: California Department of Food and Agriculture; USDA National Agricultural Statistics Service; U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics; California Department of Water Resources; U.S. Census Bureau.