{"id":11062,"date":"2013-02-20T02:37:28","date_gmt":"2013-02-20T10:37:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=11062"},"modified":"2013-02-20T02:46:45","modified_gmt":"2013-02-20T10:46:45","slug":"fruits-nuts-and-other-cheesy-california-news","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/fruits-nuts-and-other-cheesy-california-news\/","title":{"rendered":"Fruits, Nuts and Other Cheesy California News"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" alt=\"img\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/calfru.jpg\" width=\"922\" height=\"456\" \/><\/p>\n<ul>\n<li><strong>MILK<\/strong> &#8211; The price is going up in California and will rise even more if dairy farmers have their way. Last year they were granted a 30% increase in what they can charge, but it&#8217;s not enough&#8211;they say they are losing $3 per hundredweight. We <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/california-milk-tops-the-charts-as-leading-ag-product\/\">steered you last year<\/a> to coupon savings:\u00a0 realcaliforniamilk.com\/for-californians\/coupons\/<\/li>\n<li><strong>CHEESE<\/strong> &#8211; California&#8217;s artisan cheesemakers don&#8217;t want the price of milk to rise again. They claim it may force them to relocate their businesses to other states. Wisconsin is reportedly eyeing the situation, as it would like to reclaim its former title as the top dairy producer, a position it enjoyed until 1993 when <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-milk.html\">California pushed the dairy state out of first place<\/a>. In March <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/petaluma-cheese-festival.html\">Artisan Cheese Festiva<\/a>l is held in Petaluma.<\/li>\n<li><strong>WALNUTS<\/strong> &#8211;\u00a0 have been stolen because they garner high prices. The $1.3 billion walnut industry has seen theft become such a problem that growers are hiring security guards to watch the fields. Here&#8217;s a list of <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/nutty-california-festivals-as-in-almonds-walnuts\/\">walnut and almond festivals<\/a>!<\/li>\n<li><strong>ALMONDS<\/strong>\u00a0 -Almonds became <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/almonds.html\">California&#8217;s\u00a0 #2 crop<\/a>, under milk last year. In 2013 the California almond industry is experiencing its worst year in 30 years scrambling to find bees to pollinate the almond trees.<\/li>\n<li><strong>STRAWBERRIES<\/strong> &#8211; just received a $1 million boost from the California Strawberry Commission, a state government agency partnering to create the Strawberry Sustainability Research and Education Center at Cal Poly &#8211; San Luis Obispo. California <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/farms\/california-strawberries.html\">produces more than 85% of all strawberries<\/a> grown in the United States.<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>MILK &#8211; The price is going up in California and will rise even more if dairy farmers have their way. Last year they were granted a 30% increase in what they can charge, but it&#8217;s not enough&#8211;they say they are losing $3 per hundredweight. We steered you last year to coupon savings:\u00a0 realcaliforniamilk.com\/for-californians\/coupons\/ CHEESE &#8211; [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[29],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/3"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=11062"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/11062\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=11062"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=11062"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=11062"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}