Three requests. None of them requires significant new spending, and none of them asks the County to weaken a single environmental protection.
Recognize the six products working farms produce — crops, open space and viewshed, flood control, wildfire buffer, climate regulation, and groundwater recharge — and ask Ventura County to commission a study valuing the five the County receives for free.
Ask the Board of Supervisors to test every proposed fee, permit condition, and land-use policy against a simple question: does this impose another cost on an acre of farmland that can no longer absorb one?
Let's use the 2025 Crop Report's cost data — the first of its kind any county has ever collected — as the baseline for a Ventura County Agricultural Economic Index to measure and track the economic health of local agriculture over time, and to help direct local policymaking and the County's broader legislative platform.
Share why supporting local farming matters.
Three numbers, written and ready to post. Copy one and put it in front of someone who thinks $2.4 billion is a good news story.
Copy and post the numbers