{"id":352845,"date":"2010-02-23T08:51:02","date_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:51:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3144"},"modified":"2010-02-23T08:51:02","modified_gmt":"2010-02-23T13:51:02","slug":"farm-jobs-remain-stable-despite-dire-forecasts","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/352845","title":{"rendered":"Farm jobs remain stable despite dire forecasts"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-me-water-jobs22-2010feb22,0,6121428.story\" ><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" src=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/media\/photo\/2010-02\/52358395.jpg\" width=\"320\" align=\"left\" height=\"211\" \/><\/a><a href=\"http:\/\/eenews.net\/Greenwire\/2010\/02\/22\/20\/\" >Greenwire<\/a>: Despite the public image of a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/California_Central_Valley_grasslands\">Central Valley<\/a> on the verge of becoming a <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Dust_Bowl\">dust bowl<\/a> from cuts in water deliveries, crop and labor statistics for 2009 negate the idea that <a href=\"http:\/\/www.eoearth.org\/article\/Energy_profile_of_California%2C_United_States\">California&#8217;s<\/a> farm economy is on the edge of collapse.<\/p>\n<p>The state&#8217;s farming community has weathered the recession better than other sectors in the state, according to its employment numbers, though reduced water deliveries hurt some areas more than others.<\/p>\n<p>While construction work plummeted 17.8 percent and manufacturing jobs were down nearly 8 percent in the state, the number of California farm jobs increased statewide since 2006 and only dipped slightly &#8212; less than half a percent from 2008 to 2009.<\/p>\n<p>In Fresno County, the state&#8217;s top-producing agricultural county, the number of farm jobs rose slightly last year.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;People make a lot of claims, but the data you see is showing growth,&#8221; said Paul Wessen, an economist with the California Employment Development Department. &#8220;We&#8217;re just not seeing the job loss&#8221; (Bettina Boxal, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.latimes.com\/news\/science\/environment\/la-me-water-jobs22-2010feb22,0,6121428.story\" ><em>Los Angeles Times<\/em><\/a>, Feb. 22). <strong>&#8211; DFM<\/strong><\/p>\n<p class=\"akst_link\"><a href=\"http:\/\/www.earthportal.org\/news\/?p=3144&amp;akst_action=share-this\"  title=\"E-mail this, post to del.icio.us, etc.\" id=\"akst_link_3144\" class=\"akst_share_link\" rel=\"nofollow\">Share This<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Greenwire: Despite the public image of a Central Valley on the verge of becoming a dust bowl from cuts in water deliveries, crop and labor statistics for 2009 negate the idea that California&#8217;s farm economy is on the edge of collapse. The state&#8217;s farming community has weathered the recession better than other sectors in the [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4055,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-352845","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352845","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4055"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=352845"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/352845\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=352845"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=352845"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/mereja.media\/index\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=352845"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}