{"id":22008,"date":"2016-01-31T00:52:12","date_gmt":"2016-01-31T08:52:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/?p=22008"},"modified":"2016-01-31T00:53:15","modified_gmt":"2016-01-31T08:53:15","slug":"ag-shows","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/ag-shows\/","title":{"rendered":"California Ag for the Masses"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" loading=\"lazy\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/images\/agxp.jpg\" alt=\"img\" width=\"650\" height=\"339\" \/><\/p>\n<p>OK city slicker&#8230; did you ever wonder what they do at an ag show? Do you even know what &#8216;ag&#8217; is? Now is your chance to find out. This week and next two of the biggest agriculture shows in California, the\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/fairs\/colusa-farm-show.html\">Colusa Farm Show<\/a> Feb. 2-4, 2016, and <a href=\"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/festivals\/tulare-world-ag-expo.html\">World Ag Expo<\/a> in Tulare Feb. 9-11, offer the public an inside look at the business of growing. From nut growers to shelling\u00a0facilities,\u00a0nurseries to machine shops, the world of ag means big bucks to\u00a0California. If we simply fed our state that would be great,\u00a0but Californians are in the business of exporting foods, beverages and plants. We lead in\u00a0wine\u00a0production, milk &#8211; dairy, cheese, nuts (almonds, walnuts\u00a0&amp;\u00a0pistachios) olives, grapes, lettuce, avocados, lemons, artichokes and strawberries &#8212; you get the picture. Californians owe it to themselves to learn\u00a0about\u00a0farming and food issues since we, as voters, create laws that impact farmers and their ability to stay in business.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>OK city slicker&#8230; did you ever wonder what they do at an ag show? Do you even know what &#8216;ag&#8217; is? Now is your chance to find out. This week and next two of the biggest agriculture shows in California, the\u00a0Colusa Farm Show Feb. 2-4, 2016, and World Ag Expo in Tulare Feb. 9-11, offer [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":3,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","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\/22008"}],"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=22008"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/22008\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=22008"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=22008"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.seecalifornia.com\/traveltips\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=22008"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}