Ag Alert March 17, 2021

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YOLO COUNTY 40+/- ac row crop ground with home. AgWell & domestic well, Class #1 soils, 2,600 sq. ft +/- house has pool. Located North of Woodland just off I-5 on Yolo Co Rd 15 $1,200,000 SUTTER COUNTY 300 AC Rice & row crop, water district water, not for trees. Near Robbins, CA. Two county road frontage. $4,175,000

Lemons, Avocados, Row Crop Land for Sale

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Richfield 40Acres Open Land

80 ACRES, LASSEN COUNTY, with domestic well and septic tank. Nancy 530-251-6870 200 ACRES NEAR Black Butte Lake, custom home with 20 acres of wine grapes. Winery, fishing, hunting. Turn- key opportunity. $4,500,000. 530-200- 3572 Scott Dunbar • 805-358-6644 www.vcranches.com • CalDre #01242893

530.529.4400 AGLANDBROKERS.COM BRE # 01707128 20 ac. with landscaped home & pool, 3,200 sqft. truck shop, 3.5 ac. of Chandler orchard (3) miles (S) of Hamilton City on Highway 45, (S) of Stony Creek. Reduced: $710,000 Trucking Headquarters &Walnuts Hamilton City, CA The SE edge of Richfield Community, Corning, CA. Build a home or develop to crops or orchards. Primarily Class 2 soil, AcB; Altamont clay, terrace, 3 - 10 % slope, some class 4 soils. AG Preserve zoning may offer property tax savings. New Listing $305,000

A bill in the state Legislature would expand the ability for livestock ranchers to process animals on the farm for sale directly to customers.

Farm & Ranch Realty jeff@farmranchrealty.us 530-908-4689 Lic: #00554252

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imals for their ownprivate label, she hadnowhere to take her hogs. She started shipping her lambs to Superior Farms inDixon, but noted the facility is “not set up for really small producers likeme”whoprocess few lots of lambs. CommercialproductionlinessuchasSuperiorFarmsmake itdifficult for ranchers to retain theoriginal product theydelivered to the slaugh- terhouse, which is important for some producers, said John Harper, University of California Cooperative Extension livestock and natural resources advisor forMendocino and Lake counties. “If you unload your animals, there’s no guarantee that those didn’t get commingledwith somebody else’s animals,” he said. Barinaga said she’s beenusing the samemobile abattoir for years to process hogs she raises for her own consumptionand for two employ- ees who live on the ranch—but under current state law, she can’t do this for her customers. AB 888 would fill a need for ranchers who raise small numbers of animalsandwhocoulduseon-farmprocessingasaviable, legal option to sell to customerswhowant to buywhole animals, she said. It would also give small ranchers some control over a “very important piece of the processing chain, which is harvest,” she added. Under the bill, meat from these animals cannot be resold or go into the public food system. The bill would limit the number of animals allowed to be processed on a given premise, tentatively set at 25 head of lamb or goats permonth. Ranchers have beenoffering “cowshare” and sellingwhole animals for years under federal law that does not require animals processed for personal consumption to go through a federally inspected facility, said Vince Trotter, UCCE agricultural ombudsman inMarin County. What ranchers didnot realize, he said, is that California lawmakes the practice illegal unless the slaughter takes place on the property of the personwho owns the animal. AB 2114 removed that requirement for cattle so that the processing could be done on the farm where the animal was raised; AB 888, if passed, would do the same for sheep, goats and potentially swine. Livestock advisor Harper said he thinks ranchers with small flocks would “jump at the chance” to use this option, as they can “cut out the middleman”andearnahigherpriceselling theirproduct locally.Other incentives include reduced costs and animal welfare because they’re not shipping livestock long distances, he added. Thomas Butler, who operates TAB Butler’s Ranch Butchering in Calaveras County, said he thinks passage of AB 888 would be a boon for his business, which has already seen an uptick in volume since the pandemic. He noted he’s now scheduling appointments twomonths out, whereas before the pandemic, he could serve a customer within a couple of weeks. “I think (AB888)wouldbe actually a really good thing,” Butler said. “I thinkpeopleshouldbeabletosourcetheirmeatdirectlyfromtherancher.” Trotter saidallowing ranchers touseon-farmprocessing isnot about replacing inspected slaughter but would add “onemore option in an environmentwherecurrentlyoptionsarepretty limited.”Pointing tothe consolidationof U.S.meatpackers and impacts fromplant shutdowns due to the pandemic, he said havingmore options would strengthen the supply chain. “If we learned anything during this past year of COVID-19, it’s that our entire food systemneeds a little more resilience built into it and particularly meat processing,” Trotter said, “so having as many path- ways as possible from ranches to consumers’ plates can only be good for the systemas awhole.” (Ching Lee is an assistant editor of Ag Alert. She may be contacted at clee@cfbf.com.)

5± ACRES – Great homesite with mansions in the neighborhood 15± ACRES – Two wells and small vineyard. 2,195± sq. ft. home. West Side Lodi 19± ACRES – Two parcels w/ income producing Cabernet Sauvignon vineyard 20± ACRES – Syrah vineyard located just east of Highway 99 24± ACRES –Over 1,500± ft of Mokelumne River frontage. Great soils for planting 37± ACRES – Bing cherries and multi-varietal walnuts. Located in Linden 58± ACRES – Home and vineyard overlooking the Mokelumne River 58± ACRES – Income producing Bing cherries and Pinot Grigio grapes

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60± ACRES – Located in the Clarksburg Ava, planted to Alfalfa 79± ACRES – Bare land ready for your next crop. “PENDING”

FARMERS GET THE MOST, money for your Walnut Burls. Call Brush Hard- woods. 209-847-7345 NEOPRENE HAY TARPS or Lumber Tarps, 16’ wide X 66’ long, D-rings on 24" centers. Excellent condition, used only once, 10 available, $350/ea Dale 559-351-1942 VINTAGE OLD TIME Shop Smith, table saw works and nice wooden stand. $150 Obo Escalon. Call John 209-470- 2660

87± ACRES –With 40± acres dry farmed for hay with quick access to Hwy 99. 89± ACRES – Bare land slated for residential development. Hwy 99 frontage. 100± ACRES – Winery & vineyard w/tasting rm, tank storage, boat dock & more 104± ACRES – Multiple homesites with valley views. Minutes from Camanche 115± ACRES – Irrigated pasture with a home and 2 AG wells. Two parcels 166± ACRES – Located in Clarksburg, currently planted to Alfalfa and Dichondra 207± ACRES – 12th leaf Chandler walnut orchard in Stanislaus county . 350± ACRES – Irrigated pasture with beautiful home, horse & hay barn and shop 408± ACRES – 3 parcels. Large reservoir. Fenced for cattle. Shop. Valley Springs 881± ACRES – Irrigated pasture in Dixon, located in the North DeltaWater Agency

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NEW 17.02 AC Chandler Walnuts Planted 2007, 2 water sources............................$595,700 NEW 18.01 AC Chandler Walnuts Planted 2012, 2 water sources..............................$630,000 54 AC Westlands pistachios, 2Water Sources....................................................................$2.1M 78 AC Row Crop Ranch, EmpireWD & State ContractWater, Stratford.. IN ESCROW ..$13,000/AC NEW 88.55 AC Chandler Walnuts Planted 2013, 2 water souces..............................$3,364,000 99.13 AC Estate, 34 AC 4 yr. old walnuts, one acre Peoples, 2 ag wells, Hanford......$6,200,000 104.84 AC Mature Pistachios, CaweloWD &Well, Kern Co…..................................$39,000/AC 136.25 AC Alfalfa, Well water and in Semitropic WSD.....................................................$3.0M 182 AC 26 C-2 Lots and Ag land, curb/gutter, utilities, I-5 & 119.. PENDING ......…$4,500,000 NEW 204.36 AC Almonds Young Producing balance producting walnuts..............$7,380 , 000 233 AC Row Crop, wells & Pixley ID, feedlot, Tulare Co..... SOLD ….....................…$12,900/AC 320 AC Hunting Club - CUP, Semitropic WD, 1 well, Buttonwillow…....................... $5,000/AC 436.9 AC Open Land, Jacobs Irrigation District & 2Wells….… SOLD ...............…$30,000/AC 516.6AC RowCrop, 100Shares Lemoore Canal Stock, Stratford.. INESCROW ............8,500,000 516.77 AC Homan Tulare Dairy, Farmland, Bliss Water shares & wells................$11,959,250 1,428 AC Almonds, Pistachios & Open,WestlandsWD &Wells................................$22,500,000 CHECK OUR WEBSITE FOR DETAILS AGRICULTURAL REAL ESTATE PROFESSIONALS HOEKSTRA & ASSOCIATES, INC.

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