( FRESNO AG TALLY)
DESPITE WEATHER WORRIES AND PESTS AND PESTILENCE, DESPITE A POOR MARKET AND NATIONWIDE RECESSION, FRESNO COUNTY REMAINS THE STATE'S TOP AGRICULTURAL PRODUCER WITH A TOTAL CROP VALUED AT 5.4-BILLION DOLLARS.
AND, WHILE FRESNO'S AG TOTAL WAS DOWN ABOUT 4.5-PERCENT, NEIGHBORING TULARE COUNTY WAS DOWN 19-PERCENT, AND KINGS COUNTY WAS DOWN 25-PERCENT.
THE TOP COMMODITIES WERE GRAPES, TOMATOES, POULTRY, ALMONDS AND CATTLE.