Editing Kern County, California (section)

===Agriculture===
This has long been one of the county's biggest industries.<ref name="Almond-facts" /> Between 2012 and 2013 the produced value of ag products increased 6%, to a total of $6.8 billion.<ref name="Almond-facts" /> Grape is 31%, [[almond]] is 17%, [[milk]] is 13%, citrus is 11%, [[cattle]] + [[Calf (animal)|calves]] and [[pistachio]] are both 7%, [[carrot]]s are only 6% (but that's 80% of carrots for the entire United States), [[hay]] is 4%, and [[cotton]] and [[potato]]es are both 2%, of that.<ref name="Almond-facts" /> This is one of the highest-producing locations in the United States for [[vegetable]]s, and also for [[watermelon]]s.<ref name="VRIC" /> Vegetables are estimated to total $320 million every year.<ref name="VRIC">{{cite web | access-date=September 11, 2022 | date=August 21, 2020 | url=https://vric.ucdavis.edu/virtual_tour/kern.htm | title=Kern County Agriculture | website=[[UC Vegetable Research & Information Center]]}}</ref> There are about 1,938 farms, at an average size of {{convert|1,202|acre}} (however 41% are smaller than {{convert|50|acre}}), being the primary employment of 63% of operators.<ref name="Almond-facts" />

Major producer of [[almonds]]<ref>{{Cite news|last=Green|first=Miranda|date=April 10, 2021|title=A California county, despite the state's climate goals, further embraces fossil fuels|language=en-US|newspaper=Washington Post|url=https://www.washingtonpost.com/climate-environment/a-california-county-despite-the-states-climate-goals-further-embraces-fossil-fuels/2021/04/09/43b28254-9655-11eb-962b-78c1d8228819_story.html|access-date=April 11, 2021|issn=0190-8286}}</ref> with production greater than {{convert|100|e6lb|MT ST}} annually.<ref name="Almond-facts" /> That is third of all the counties, 16% of the state's production.<ref name="Almond-facts">{{cite web | date=February 2015 | location=[[Modesto]] | title=Kern County Facts | publisher=[[Almond Board of California]] | url=https://www.almonds.com/sites/default/files/content/attachments/almond_industry_-_kern_county.pdf}}</ref> (See also [[almond in California]].)

Pistachio is another important employer here.<ref name="res-middle-of-state" /> The Michailides & Avenot group finds severe [[boscalid]] resistance in [[microbial isolate|isolates]] of ''[[Alternaria alternata]]'' pathogenic on pistachio here.<ref name="res-middle-of-state" /> They find extensive such resistance in a swathe from the center down into the central southern part of the state, but especially here.<ref name="res-middle-of-state">{{cite journal | year=2010 | issue=7 | volume=29 | pages=643–651 | publisher=[[Elsevier]] ([[International Association for the Plant Protection Sciences]] (IAPPS)) | journal=[[Crop Protection (journal)|Crop Protection]] | issn=0261-2194 | last1=Avenot | first1=Hervé F. | first2=Themis J. | last2=Michailides | title=Progress in understanding molecular mechanisms and evolution of resistance to succinate dehydrogenase inhibiting (SDHI) fungicides in phytopathogenic fungi | doi=10.1016/j.cropro.2010.02.019 | bibcode=2010CrPro..29..643A | s2cid=41034322 | id=HFA {{orcid|0000-0001-6558-8472}}}}</ref> (See also [[Pistachio in California]] and [[boscalid in California]].)

The Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter (''Homalodisca vitripennis'') is a major insect pest in this county, including in this county's [[citrus]] groves.<ref name="gwss">{{cite web|date=2017|id=3441|publisher=[[University of California Agriculture and Natural Resources]] (UCANR)|url=https://www2.ipm.ucanr.edu/agriculture/citrus/glassy-winged-sharpshooter/|title=Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter Agriculture: Citrus Pest Management Guidelines}}</ref> (See also [[Glassy-Winged Sharpshooter in California]].)