Crop report indicates 5.9 percent increase over 2012

San Diego County’s 2013 crop report, which indicated that total agricultural production increased nearly six percent from 2012, was released Sept. 10 at a press conference held at Armstrong Garden Center in El Cajon.

“To see a six percent increase was very encouraging,” said San Diego County Farm Bureau executive director Eric Larson, who attended the ceremony but did not speak.

Larson noted that due to water and labor challenges he would have considered just keeping even with 2012 a “victory.” Farm Bureau president Julie Walker represented the organization as one of the speakers at the ceremo...