Last Asparagus Farmer In San Joaquin County Considering Calling It Quits

STOCKTON (CBS13) — Stockton’s Asparagus Festival is coming up next week, but most of the food at this year’s event will be imported from Mexico. The lack of local produce is due to many of the San Joaquin County farmers calling it quits on a crop they once celebrated in the Central Valley.
The San Joaquin Farm Bureau says some 60,000 acres of asparagus were once grown in the Central Valley, but it has been reduced to about 500 acres. The one remaining farmer says he too may sto