California County Proclaims Local Emergency to Allow Tomato Farms to Use Pesticides

Published on May 21, 2024

Officials of Stanislaus County in Northern California approved an emergency proclamation May 14 to allow local tomato farmers to use a banned pesticide to protect crops from the arrival of pests this year. The proclamation allows growers to apply a pesticide banned this year by California to battle an infestation of the beet leafhopper, a tomato-plant-killing bug. The agricultural-based county relies on tomatoes as one of its top 10 commodities, which brought in about $54 million in 2022, according to the county’s latest crop report. Local growers and pest control experts notified the central California county they had detected the pests in local tomato crops. Data from the California Department of Agriculture also confirmed the pests’ presence within the county....

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